A self-proclaimed redneck named Pennsatucky doesn't try to kill Piper, but she is friends with a crew of fellow crack addicts, like someone named Allie.

Someone named Delicious who calls Piper 'P-I Piper!' (5.71) and comments on her perky breasts isn't really anything like Taystee on the show.

There are other women whose characters on the show are only loosely based on real life.

And Big Boo Clemmons, a three-hundred-pound 'bulldyke' (9.63), is just like her television alter ego.

Her roommate, Miss Luz (Rosa), has cancer, but who knows if she robbed a bank or not.She's the first woman Piper meets in the prison rooms and she's pretty nice to her. Annette (Anita) is a 'middle-class, middle-aged Italian-American lady from Jersey' (3.117), who is serving fifty-seven months in prison.Sister Ardeth Platte (Sister Ingalls) is a nun who gets more mail than Piper.

Miss Natalie (Miss Claudette) is Piper's roommate in B Dorm-we learn that Miss is a title given only to those 'who were highly respected' (5.14)-and she's quiet and clean and gets her GED while in prison.Minetta (Lorna Morello) is the 'chipper' (3.80) van driver who wears makeup and introduces Piper to the prison. There are some women who are pretty similar to their television counterparts.But here are a few of the women Piper associates with, why they're important, and who their television equivalent is, if applicable. That's one thing you don't talk about in prison: how you got there. Piper tells us about many of the women in Danbury although, without the magic of television flashbacks, we don't know much about how they got there. An original comedy-drama series from Netflix, Piper's story is a fascinating, heartbreaking and often hilarious insight into life on the inside.Other Inmates Trapped Trapped Trapped 'til the Cage is Full She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with tokens of generosity, hard truths and simple acts of acceptance. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at an infamous women's prison in Connecticut, Piper becomes inmate #11187-424.įrom her first strip search to her final release, she learns to navigate this strange world with its arbitrary rules and codes, its unpredictable, even dangerous relationships. With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman