Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
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- ISBN13: 9780385523387
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A compelling, regularly hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women’s prison
When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-ancient crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she’d been when, before long after graduating Smith College, she’d committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her.Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking.
Kerman spent thirteen months in prison, eleven of them at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she met a surprising and varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances. In Orange Is the New Black, Kerman tells the tale of persons long months locked up in a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies, where a practical joke is as common as an unprovoked fight, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.
Revealing, moving, and enraging, Orange Is the New Black offers a unique perspective on the criminal justice system, the reasons we send so many people to prison, and what happens to them when they’re there.
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I am completely bewildered at the copious stars bestowed upon this essentially shallow memoir. While the rest of us scrimped and saved for early-twenties adventure, our leader was way too grand for actual work, attaching herself to her drug running lesbian lover for a life of freebies and 5-star travel. I find it impossible to judge that she was the hapless innocent drug runner that she describes. Impossible by her own standards, for we are told repeatedly that she is a graduate of Smith, Quick forwards, a decade and she finds herself no longer the long-practicing lesbian that she once was – but deeply, passionately, breathlessly teenage in like with Larry.
When her past catches up with her, this is where it all turns into a mystery. It appears that her life is only populated with adoring and supporting fans, including unbelievably, Larry’s parents. EVERYONE is understanding and loving. She seems devoid of any bring shame on or embarrassment. She never considers that all the support that she is getting isn’t radical chic. It’s the first thing I suspected. The crushing cost of a top-notch criminal defense lawyer as her case grinds on for a few years rumor has it that doesn’t place a crimp on the yuppie New York lifestyle, for it appears that her and Larry have that ever-vague, yet lucrative Manhattan publishing job. Well, she did graduate from Smith. Her time is the clink in one of tedium and menial labor and, of course loads of reading Smith-worthy books – A small R&R on the government dime. Hardly the gulag. Her boyfriend Larry is cartoonish in his devotion. The reader is never privy to an honest transaction between them. He pparently didn’t have an ounce of apprehension about her lesbian tendencies and what that would mean for her prison term or having a convicted felon as the mother of his children. Of course her housing needs will be met on her relief, for he bought them a pretty apartment in Brooklyn (no tiny financial feat) to reward her upon her relief. Our heroine never once agonizes over how being an ex-con will impact her future, particularly her future employment. In essence this is a tale of a spoiled entitled woman, whose tale isn’t the least bit insightful. Save your money!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When I read this book through in one sitting I thought, how appealing. Then I considered what I had read. After being told clearly what her lover’s friends did, Small Miss Free Spirit, not only undeterred but rumor has it that viewing it as a fun, new experience in her life, attaches herself to a bunch of very high level drug runners and is then shocked after parasitical on these people for some time when they insist she run some drug money. Rumor has it that while absorbing her sense of Entitlement and Free Spiritedness she forgot to note that there are no free lunches. Never mind free trips to the classiest places in the world.
It takes ten years for her fun drug days to catch up with her. Unfair! Her fling days are over and anyone can see that, so why come after her now? At least that seems to be her and her family tree and friends take on it. After all, girls just wanna have fun.
After that she does time with a whole prison of misunderstood women. I frankly do not judge the time was as simple as she describes it, not matter how hard on her she saw it. If you read closely it is more like she is describing a not very expensive rest camp where the campers (she calls her prison “The Camp” and the inmates “Campers”) have to do some work each day but, not to worry, her adoring fiance and family tree inundate her with books so she can relax comfortably in her spare time. The only issue she reports between herself and another inmate is she is alternative all the fresh spinach out of the salad and gets called on it by another prisoner. Now that is what I call hard time.
Also note that Miss I-have-a-degree-from-Smith declines to tutor any of these poor, misunderstood women who did not get a honest start in life. Her agreed reason: Too much distress.
For a finale she does brief time in a much less nice prison in Chicago. But even here the most she really complains about is how dirty everything is. Rumor has it that all the inmates are just as sweet as pie. Not even a quarrel over spinach. After one year she is still expecting that when she questions a question it will be promptly answered by the guards. Her irritation that the guards are not hopping to it at her request irritates her.
After reading her book I came to the conclusion she is a spoiled brat who got off very lightly, with her sense of entitlement not even dented, and having learned nothing. Aided and abetted by her family tree, her fiance, and even his family tree.
I would return the book, just so she could not benefit from the sale, but I have already read it. I suggest no one else buy the book. She lived in a six star world, eyes open to the drug money that was paying for her excellent time, messed up her drug money run, had ten years of comfortable freedom, did one year in what, by her description, was a comfortable camp, got out, married her fiance to all-purpose applause, and wrote a book to more applause. Do not reward her by buying this book. One year in a two star hostel does not start to make up for the hell she helped place on our streets. Really, that is what she and her family tree and friends do not acknowledge. And which makes me so mad. She was not an innocent bystander in the drug war, but an active participant in building it simple for lives to be ruined, while happily collecting all the perks that go with drug running.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Yes, it was a “minimum security” prison, and yes she’s a middle class white girl who went to an Ivy League school … so get over it. This is a book full of unexpected pleasures and insights. There’s Kerman’s unwavering capacity to value the women she meets. The vulnerability and sweetness she discovers beneath their surface bravado. The ingenious ways these women find to keep hope alive while facing years more of confinement. The window their experience provides into the extraordinary differences between men and women (I’ll take women). Kerman finds a way to embrace the world she’s living in, and then, in this book, a graceful blend of empathy and objectivity to bring alive a world she could never have imagined herself inhabiting.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The system is broken and women are incredible. If you judge one or both of these statements, then you have establish your new favorite book. And if you don’t, you will be so wildly, heartbreakingly convinced of their truth by Piper Kerman’s tale that you will want to change things – from the ways we judge each additional to what we can accept as justice in this country to that extra screwdriver landing on Kerman’s toolbelt (you’ll see). This unforgettable book is as moving as it is vital and the essential, gorgeous record of how humanity can rise above a system designed for its degradation. Read it and let your world rock a small, reflect differently – better – of people and the treatment of people.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I had no thought what to expect when I selected up this book last night, but I most certainly did not expect that I would be unable to place it down. I read the book take in to take in and establish that I was so attached to the strong, compassionate and in many instances unlucky women the leader met in prison that I couldn’t help but marvel how they are all doing today. This tale is yet another real example of how resilient people can be and the power of like.
For many American’s, it is simple to forget about the large number of people in prisons across the country, especially the women. This book is an brilliant reminder.
I haven’t had Ms. Kerman’s book for 24 hours yet, and I have already recommended it to friends and family tree. Incredible!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5