From the Bookshelf of Mineola Library's 2012 FALL Reading Challenge…
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I thought Piper was truly remorseful not just sorry to be caught. I'm sure it was a terrible shock to her system to be thrown in prison after her socially elite lifestyle. Thankfully she had her fiance keeping the home fires burning and plenty of family support. I liked that she was able to share her reading material with fellow inmates. If I ever was incarcerated, reading would be my method for escaping reality.
What I wanted to know about, and Kerman failed to elaborate on in her memoirs, were ...more
What I wanted to know about, and Kerman failed to elaborate on in her memoirs, were ...more
Piper Kerman tells her story about a brief mistake she made getting mixed up in the drug trade which landed her in prison for fifteen months. She tells about the everyday life, the gruesome facts, and how she endured her sentence with the help of friends inside and outside the prison walls. I'm not much for reading non-fiction books, but Kerman writes it like a novel, and with good detail portrayed her surroundings and life inside the federal correctional facility.
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