Finished Mo 10/23/14
I was expecting this book to be a condescending put down by an uppity and privileged white girl distainful of lazy and shiftless women who couldn't or wouldn't follow the Republican playbook and 'work hard, and be successful', but was I in for a shock!! This was one of the best books I've read about life behind bars, and showed amazing insight into America's broken prison system.
The television show has very little to do with what 'the real' Piper experienced, but the show is still one of my faves. It's too sexually provocative and 'over the top', but I guess they mean it to be transgressively entertaining.
Piper must wait almost a decade before she begins her sentence. I think that alone would be punishment enough.
The show doesn't mention her running the track, and how important working out was to her sanity.
The last section of the book about her trip to Chicago to testify and the ride on Con-Air was fascinating.
Piper Kerman at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Kerman
Amazon customer reviews-
http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Is-New-Black-Womens/dp/0385523394#customerReviews
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