There, in the Twilight Zone of New York’s jails and prisons, Keri grappled with the wreckage of her missteps and mistakes as she sobered up and searched for a better path. Her arrest made the front page of the local news and landed her behind bars for nearly two years. Then, on a cold day during her senior year, the police caught her walking down the street with a Tupperware full of heroin. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice.įor the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Inspiring and relevant.”Īn electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. It is a radical call for justice, and a testament to the power of finding one's voice.“Brave, brutal.

Written in luminous prose, with searing honesty and flashes of dark humour, Corrections in Ink shines a light on a broken prison system, and the cruelty and kindness Blakinger experienced there. Shortly afterwards, she is convicted and sent to prison.įorced to confront her addiction, Keri finally manages to break free of it, and finds herself in a place unlike anything she has experienced before: a world built on senseless brutality, but whose inhabitants, her fellow inmates, will change her life forever. But on a cold December day, Keri is arrested with a Tupperware container full of heroin. Whether flying through the air, chasing Olympic dreams on the ice rink surviving on as few calories as she could or balancing a heroin addiction with pursuing a degree at an Ivy League university.

Keri Blakinger had always lived at full throttle. 'A raw, fast-paced portrait of one woman's descent into a mental abyss' Keri Blakinger's brave, brutal memoir, Corrections in Ink, is a riveting story about suffering, recovery and redemption' PIPER KERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK a testament to where a woman can go after rock-bottom' 'A groundbreaking debut from an extraordinary writer. Corrections in Ink: Dispatches from an American Prison Keri Blakinger € 28.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days.

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