Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman // Book Review

Netflix original drama, Orange is the New Black has taken us by storm over the past year, but did you know that it is based on a book, under the same name? I can never usually read the book of something, if I have seen the TV show or movie first, (I find it really hard to get into them), but I decided to make an exception for OITNB and put everything I knew about the series to one side, and picked up the book with a fresh mind.

Piper Kerman, a graduate fresh out of Smith wanted adventure, which is exactly what she got when she fell in love with Nora Jansen. Travelling all over the world, jumping from waterfalls, eating exotic cuisines, and smuggling drug money for her girlfriends international drug ring, she couldn't have been more happier. When she realised that this is not the life she had signed up for, she took the first available plane back to America, where she met Larry, her now husband, and left that dark part of her life behind her, or at least she thought she had. Almost ten years after, in what seemed like an entirely different lifetime Piper was charged with money laundering  and sentenced to fifteen months in prison.

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