sickening black mold in the GED classroom) and the complete lack of everything normal (i.e. some of the male guards taking liberties with the pat-downs), the conditions of the women's prison (i.e. However, she does own up to her mistakes and the zany, funny and heartbreaking side characters certainly made up for any of the Mary-Sueing. She does make herself out to be the end-all-be-all hero (but it was not nearly as bad as Wild ). Her innocence and goodness is over-emphasized and her drug involvement glossed over. though this book did have a bit of a Mary-Sue-ness to Piper. Not bad! There were many areas I really enjoyed about this one. She gains a whole new perspective on life, and one she is not soon to forget. But while in prison, Piper learns lessons of bravery, love and sacrifice. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified-really genuinely brave. (Note: fiance isn't the one who got her into trafficking) I knew that I would have to be brave.
So, it would be fair to say she screwed up colossally.ĭespite the offence being a decade old, the current law forces all those who are involved with drugs are pursued to the fullest extent of the law.Īnd so she goes to prison for fifteen months, with her family and fiance waving sadly from the sidelines. Ten years later, that drug ring was busted and her name was brought to attention. One thing led to another and the next thing she knew, she traveled the world as an international drug traffickers. Their stories raise issues of friendship and family, mental illness, the odd cliques and codes of behavior, the role of religion, the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailor, and the almost complete lack of guidance for life after prison.Ĭompelling, moving, and often hilarious, Orange is the New Black sheds a unique light on life inside a women’s prison, by a Smith College graduate who did the crime and did the time.Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers-it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, Piper was forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking.įollowing a plea deal for her 10-year-old crime, Piper spent a year in the infamous women’s correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, which she found to be no “Club Fed.” In Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Piper takes readers into B-Dorm, a community of colorful, eccentric, vividly drawn women. When federal agents knocked on her door with an indictment in hand, Piper Kerman barely resembled the reckless young woman she was shortly after graduating Smith College. Orange Is The New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
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