![]() ![]() She tells her story with humor, compassion and touches on her own redemption. In the book, Kerman (2013) narrates her experience in prison after being incarcerated for money laundering. This paper provides a review to the book and examines how the book reflects the author’s character before and after the prison. With that number, she becomes one of the many millions of people who once get incarcerated and lose their name. When she finds herself at the Federal Correctional Facility, Danbury, Connecticut, she loses her name and becomes prisoner number 11187-424 instead. In the book, Piper had led a reckless life style a couple years back now, it finally caught up with her, and she has to pay her dues to the State. Initially, Kerman had a job, a boyfriend named Larry, and a loving family whom she left behind when she went to prison to serve her prison sentence. ![]() The story is that Piper Kerman committed a crime 10 years ago by delivering a suitcase full of drug money. From the book, it seems that the past eventually catches up with us no matter how cleverly we think we have disguised it. The same story has formed a basis of a TV series, also named after the book, and is now on some pay TV channels. Her book, Orange is the New Black, tells the story of how she was incarcerated for a crime of money laundering. ![]() Piper Kerman is an author with a bias in memoirs. ![]() She was named Piper Eressea Kerman by her parents who are Americans. Piper Kerman was born on September 28, 1969. ![]()
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