Book Summary: Orange Is The New Black

Orange is The New Black I read Orange is The New Black, by Piper Kerman, for my independent reading book. Piper Kerman starts out as a rebellious twenty-something lost soul, who gets lost in the drug trade with her new girlfriend, Nora. Ten years after she committed her crime, the ring gets busted, as well as her; and this well educated upper-class white women is faced with 13 months in a federal prison in Danbury Connecticut. In this prison, she is faced with many challenges as she tries to learn the ropes of how it works, all while building bonds with the inmates. Although she’s a fish out of water, Piper meets all sorts of different kinds of women, and is faced with all kinds of problems, all who seem to like her street smarts, and they end up taking Piper under their wing. Throughout the story, Piper learns how to survive in a women’s prison, all while gaining real life experiences that will help her along the way. Although this book was turned into a famous …show more content…
Since we didn’t know all of the lives of the women and how they got in there (unlike the show), it made the book hard to like. The prisoners who were in their were either depicted as wrongly being in prison on cases of drug charges, (pot dealing, etc), or we were not given a clear idea of what they came from at all, making them hard to get attached to, like most characters in books should be. This book only has a surface area, just briefing over her specific time in prison, without the depth of relations with character's as well as hardships, considering she wasn’t faced with many and neither were were. By the end of the book, I was left with unanswered questions, as to what Piper's life was like after, and if she kept relationships with inmates. Overall, having watched the show before reading the book may not have been the best idea, since the book is so narrow and small-minded, not giving the reader something to

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