This was a purchase from the Wilton Library Book Sale last month and is the basis for the Netflix TV series of the same name. I loved the show, so bought the book.
The basic plot line is the same, but there were several differences between the book and the show. Both Piper Kerman (book Piper) and Piper Chapman (show Piper) are sentenced to 15 months in a minimum security prison for delivering drug money ten years earlier. Book Piper marries her boyfriend Larry and has minimum contact with her ex-girlfriend, drug smuggler Nora. Show Piper is imprisoned with her ex-girlfriend Alex and eventually marries her.
Prison protocol keeps book Piper from asking her fellow inmates what they did to be sentenced to prison, although they freely talk about the length of their sentences. The TV show did a great job delving into the past of most of the characters and dramatizing their crimes. The TV show also featured more sex and violence.
Book Piper was much more likeable, thoughtful, and self aware than show Piper, recognizing how her crime had ruined the lives of people like her inmate friends. These inmate friends were the ones who helped Piper going through her sentence, the humiliations, arbitrary rules, and customs.
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