Orange is the new black : my year in a women's prison / Piper Kerman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))Edition: 2011 Spiegel & Grau trade paperback editionDescription: 327 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0385523394
  • 9780385523394
  • 9780385523387
  • 0385523386
  • 9780349139869
  • 0349139865
  • 9780812986181
  • 0812986180
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 365.43092 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9474.F66 K47 2011
NLM classification:
  • 365.43 K39o
Other classification:
  • BIO026000 | SOC030000 | BIO022000
  • K837.128.5=6
Contents:
Are you gonna go my way? -- It all changed in an instant -- #11187-424 -- Orange is the new black -- Down the rabbit hole -- High voltage -- The hours -- So bitches can hate -- Mothers and daughters -- Schooling the OG -- Ralph Kramden and the Marlboro Man -- Naked -- Thirty-five and still alive -- October surprises -- Some kinda way -- Good time -- Diesel therapy -- It can always get worse.
Summary: When the author was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she had been when she 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. She 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. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance. Here she tells the story of those 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. This is a look into the lives of women in prison; why we lock so many away and what happens to them when they are there.
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"Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States by Spiegel & Grau ... in 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes a reader's guide.

Includes bibliographical references.

Are you gonna go my way? -- It all changed in an instant -- #11187-424 -- Orange is the new black -- Down the rabbit hole -- High voltage -- The hours -- So bitches can hate -- Mothers and daughters -- Schooling the OG -- Ralph Kramden and the Marlboro Man -- Naked -- Thirty-five and still alive -- October surprises -- Some kinda way -- Good time -- Diesel therapy -- It can always get worse.

When the author was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she had been when she 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. She 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. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with small tokens of generosity, hard words of wisdom, and simple acts of acceptance. Here she tells the story of those 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. This is a look into the lives of women in prison; why we lock so many away and what happens to them when they are there.

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