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Piper kerman book5/12/2023 ![]() Both have had edges removed, to turn them into, if not exactly a normal everyday rich suburban TV couple, then certainly less sympathetic, more grating characters. Bloom is surprised to find out that Chapman used to date women. Smith knew Kerman when she identified as a lesbian. Kerman’s husband, Larry Smith (see, there’s a difference right there, they never broke up), is an accomplished writer and editor, and has presumably never written a whiny piece about nearly wanking. Kerman had the additional indignity of half a decade between her trial in 1998 and her sentencing in 2003, years where she was being strung along and unable to make life plans. Kerman comes across as much more aware of her privilege in the memoir, and her situation is a fair bit shittier. But it turns out that the changes made to Piper for the show are largely responsible for her ability to vex.Kerman’s career – a jobbing editor and producer – is swapped out for a boutique soup company in the show. ![]() Given that she’s based on a real person who is lurking around in the credits, I figured this was an awkward, unfixable, holdover. I’m not alone in finding Piper Chapman somewhat annoying. ![]() Piper Kerman was named as a co-conspirator in a drug ring and served 13 months of a 15-month sentence from February 2004 to March 2005. The real Piper served time in FCI Danbury (just over the border in Connecticut rather than the New York of the show’s Litchfield). Piper Chapman is based on Piper Kerman, loosely in some aspects and closely in others. ![]()
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