Meet the Cast
Piper Kerman
The Heroin(e) of our StoryOnce upon a time (1993) in a land far, far away (Belgium), twenty-four-year-old blond-haired Piper Kerman helped her girlfriend smuggle drug money through customs in Bruss...
Larry
Stand By Your (Wo)ManLarry is Piper's boyfriend who stands by her the entire time she's in prison (unlike his television counterpart). When they meet in San Francisco, Larry is "always up for anyth...
Nora Jansen
Heroin ChicNora Jansen is an "impossibly stylish and cool lesbian" (1.15) who asks Piper out for a drink and slowly draws her into a tangled web of drugs and money laundering with her "wit and char...
Pop
The Momma and the Poppa Pop, one of Piper's fellow inmates, as depicted in the novel, isn't nearly as colorful as Red, her television counterpart, but she's still a large part of the story. Her aff...
Other Inmates
Trapped Trapped Trapped 'til the Cage is FullPiper 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. Th...
Guards and Other Officials
Respect Their Authori-tahWe learn even less about the prison guards than we do about the prisoners since the two groups aren't exactly chummy with one another. As Piper says, "It's hard to conceive...