![]() “ Orange transcends the memoir genre’s usual self-centeredness to explore how human beings can always surprise you. BEN DICKENSON, ELLE, May 2010 ( read the review) It’s a fantastic tale from the Siberia of America’s war on drugs and is a rippingly fun read right down to the unexpected moment of closure that arrives before Kerman goes home to Larry for good.” penal code (along with, of course, a good few of the truly damned). ![]() “Kerman’s memoir, Orange Is the New Black (Spiegel & Grau), reads like an estrogen-drenched version of Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead, as our gentlewoman protagonist becomes exalted by her exposure to the beautiful souls of trannie divas, Latina grandmothers, a West Indian roommate, even a few politicals-radical pacifists and nuns who managed against all odds to run afoul of the U.S. In Orange Is the New Black (Spiegel & Grau), Kerman presents–devoid of self-pity, and with novelistic flair–life in the clink as less Caged Heat and more Steel Magnolias. “Ten years after a fleeting post-Smith College flirtation with drug trafficking, Piper Kerman was arrested–a P.O.W. ![]()
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