A review of Piper Kerman's Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. - By Jessica Grose - Slate Magazine

A review of Piper Kerman's Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. - By Jessica Grose - Slate Magazine: "In her new memoir, Piper Kerman describes herself as a 'nice blond lady.' She is a Smith graduate from a loving New England family. She is also an ex-con. She served 13 months in 2004 and 2005, mostly in a minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Conn. Kerman is the last person you would expect to go to jail—we know this because she tells us repeatedly in Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. Her friends laugh because they don't believe her when she says she's about to go on trial for conspiracy charges stemming from drug trafficking and money laundering crimes she committed in her early 20s. When she finally lands in the clink, she observes her fellow prisoners with an anthropological distance because with her endless visitors, her loads of books, and her fancy education, she is a class apart."