![]() On January 12, starting at 10 a.m., Chancellor Henry T. A committee that included faculty and staff members, administrators and student representatives made this year’s selection. UCSB Reads is presented by the UCSB Library, in partnership with the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor. The UC Santa Barbara Library has chosen the book as this year’s selection for UCSB Reads.Īn annual event now in its ninth year, UCSB Reads engages the campus and the Santa Barbara community in conversations about a key topic while reading the same book. In her best-selling memoir, “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” Kerman chronicles her prison experience, which also included friendships with fellow inmates and relationships marked by generosity, wisdom and acceptance. ![]() 11187-424 serving time for money laundering, she endured the same humiliation, not the least of which came in the form of “squat and cough” searches, moldy showers and abuse or indifference from prison staff. When Piper Kerman began a 13-month sentence at a federal minimum-security women’s prison in Connecticut, the college-educated blue-eyed blonde soon realized that with a supportive family, a good lawyer and a job waiting for her on the outside, she was more fortunate than many of her prison peers. ![]()
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