As most people know and have heard of Orange is the New Black as a famous TV show on Netflix. What most do not realize is that Piper Kerman has wrote a memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, telling her story of the year she spent inside a women’s prison. As the author of this book Piper as evident is very connected with her own story. Through her memoir Piper expresses to the world her experiences of being stripped of her human rights. By being stripped of her rights she starts to realize the importance’s of some everyday items that are meaningless outside of prison but inside the prison are deadly weapons. Piper’s connection to her own story allows the readers to feel a one-to-one personal relationship with her. Book Jacket …show more content…
A family formed from doctors, lawyers, teachers, and nurses Piper lived a “wonderful” life. Straight out of college, Piper was young and ready for adventure. She had no plans of where she was going or what she was doing. Developing a small crush Piper had no idea of what she was getting herself into. Eager to meet her new neighbor Nora, who later invites Piper out for a casually outing for some drinks, but what she didn’t know was that she was getting herself into a world of trouble that was just starting to unravel. But there’s a small secret Nora has left out and that an international drug smuggler. As love can make us do crazy things Piper hops on this illegal life of drug smuggling. Along this ride, Piper faces many situations where she is left to be caught by the police. She starts to learn that Nora is in this for herself and she could not be