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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerman, Piper, author.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Reader's circle (Random House (Firm))

Random House reader's circle

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.).

Kerman, Piper.

Women prisoners--Connecticut--Danbury.

Women prisoners.

Reformatories for women--Connecticut--Danbury.

Reformatories for women.

Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Conn.

Connecticut--Danbury.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

327 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

2011 Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2011.

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.

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.

Notes:

"Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States by Spiegel & Grau ... in 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes a reader's guide.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0385523394

9780385523394

9780385523387

0385523386

9780349139869

0349139865

9780812986181

0812986180

OCLC:

767865774

Online:

http://www.randomhousereaderscircle.com