Sonoma State University's Associated Students Productions presents Piper
Kerman, author of "Orange is the New Black."
Meet the
author Piper Kerman and learn about the true story behind the hit
television series "Orange in the New Black" at a lecture event set for 7 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 18 at Sonoma State University.
The story of a woman in her thirties sentenced to 15 months in prison
(after being convicted of a decade old crime of transporting money for her drug
dealing girlfriend) was adapted into an original Netflix series."Orange in the
New Black," based on Kerman's book published in 2010, was heralded by the
Washington Post as "the best TV show about prison ever made."
In her memoir "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison," Piper
Kerman recounts the 15 months she spent in the Danbury Correctional Facility for
a crime she had committed ten years prior as a very brief, very careless
dalliance in the world of drug trafficking. Compelling, moving and often
hilarious, the stories of the women she met while in prison raise issues of
friendship and family, mental illness, the odd cliques and codes of behavior,
the role of religion, the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailor, and
the almost complete lack of guidance for life after prison.
