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Join Us For The BookTrib and Google+ HOA with Bestselling Author of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Piper Kerman!

Please join us on 12/5 @ 3 p.m. (ET) for a very special
BookTrib and Google+ HOA with New York Times #1 bestselling author of Orange
Is The New Black
, Piper Kerman!

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES •
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER



With a career, a boyfriend, and a
loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who
delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught
up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal
correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College
alumna is now inmate #11187–424—one of the millions of people who disappear
“down the rabbit hole” of the American penal system. From her first strip
search to her final release, Kerman learns to navigate this strange world with
its strictly enforced codes of behavior and arbitrary rules. 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. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and
at times enraging, Kerman’s story offers a rare look into the lives of women in
prison—why it is we lock so many away and what happens to them when they’re
there.

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Piper Kerman is vice president of a Washington, D.C.–based
communications firm that works with foundations and nonprofits. A graduate of
Smith College, she now lives in Brooklyn.



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