Orange Is The New
Black
My Year in a Women’s Prison
by Piper Kerman
(Spiegel & Grau, on sale now)
When Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she’d been when 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.
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—ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“Don’t let the irreverent title mislead: This is a serious and bighearted book that depicts life in a women’s prison with great detail and — crucially — with empathy and respect for Piper Kerman’s fellow prisoners, most of whom did not and do not have her advantages and options.”
—DAVE EGGERS, author of Zeitoun and co-author of Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
