he One Book One Community Committee is pleased to announce that Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison by Piper Kerman is the book selection for 2015. The book chronicles what Kerman calls her “crucible experienceâ€â€”the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut.
A brief dalliance with drug trafficking while she was in her early twenties sent Kerman to prison ten years later on money laundering charges. In her compelling, moving, and often hilarious book, she explores the experience of incarceration and the intersection of her life with the lives of the women she met while in prison: their friendships and families, mental illnesses and substance abuse issues, cliques and codes of behavior. The book also raises provocative questions about the state of criminal justice in America, and how incarceration affects the individual and communities throughout the nation.
Piper Kerman to Speak Nov. 4
One Book One Community will host author Piper Kerman on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Victory Theatre, where she will speak about her book. This event is free and open to all.
Television Series
Orange is the New Black was adapted into a critically-acclaimed Netflix series of the same name by Jenji Kohan. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning show has been called “the best TV show about prison ever made” by The Washington Post and was lauded by Time‘s TV critic James Poniewozik. The show’s third season will premiere this summer.
Orange is the New Black is available in a variety of formats for loan through the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) or for purchase at Barnes & Noble.  Library discussion groups will soon be underway and several educational and social events surrounding Orange is the New Blackwill take place in the coming months as Southern Indiana prepares to read the same book and listen to Kerman when she visits in November. Visit evpl.org/onebook for more information.
About One Book One Community
One Book One Community, a program of the EVPL, is a reading program to develop a community built around the shared experience of people reading and talking about the same book. Bringing people together to discuss ideas in books can play an important role in breaking down barriers between people, cultures and economic and educational backgrounds. The EVPL is joining with local media, schools, universities, book stores, businesses and other libraries to promote a culture of reading in Southwestern Indiana.
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