LITERATURE + LECTURES

Prepare yourself for another great author event on Wednesday, March 30, as Brazos Bookstore welcomes author, Piper Kerman (pictured, photo by Sam Zalutsky). Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome author Piper Kerman for an appearance on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at 7:00 PM when she will discuss and sign her book, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. A compelling, often hilarious, and unfailingly compassionate portrait of life inside a women’s prison.

Kerman spent thirteen months in prison, eleven of them at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, where she met a surprising and varied community of women living under exceptional circumstances. In Orange Is the New Black, Kerman tells the story of those long months locked up in a place with its own codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies, where a practical joke is as common as an unprovoked fight, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.

Revealing, moving, and enraging, Orange Is the New Black offers a unique perspective on the criminal justice system, the reasons we send so many people to prison, and what happens to them when they’re there.

About the author: Piper Kerman is vice president of a Washington, D.C.–based communications firm that works with foundations and nonprofits. A graduate of Smith College, she lives in Brooklyn.

Author's site: http://piperkerman.com/