5/30/2023 0 Comments Piper orange blackKerman describes her fellow jail mates as saints who have been wrongly imprisoned because of unfairly stringent drug laws. Her portrayal of the prisoners perpetuates this notion of glamour. “Her life story has a real glamour,” he wrote. You get the sense that if Kerman weren’t forced to go to jail, she would have seen those heroin-running years as a great cocktail party story-at least that’s what her husband makes it seem like in his first of two New York Times “Modern Love” columns about the couple’s relationship. Everything is blissful until she is nabbed by federal agents for her earlier crimes. She moves on seamlessly to a straight life in San Francisco (straight in both senses of the word-she starts dating her future husband and quits the drug-trafficking business). She talks about lounging at Bali beach clubs, free spa treatments in many different countries, and skinny dipping in waterfalls. * She becomes enthralled with an older, raspy-voiced lesbian named Nora, and through her romance with Nora, she falls into an international drug-running ring helmed by a West African. Kerman’s book starts out with her as a punchy postgrad with “a thirst for bohemian counterculture” stuck waitressing in her college town of Northampton, Mass.
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