Keri Blakinger's 300-paged memoir, Corrections in Ink, recounts her times as a renowned journalist, her pre-incarceration life and two years behind bars.
“I have problems: I am out of clean clothes, I cannot find my glasses, my English paper is late, and my pockets are not big enough for all the heroin I have,” reads the Thompson-esque opening line of her 300-page memoir,Two more examples. “It’s the middle of July, but everything is frozen,” begins Chapter 11. “I’m sitting on the floor of a crowded penthouse in Lower Manhattan and some middle-aged guy I don’t know is licking my feet,” begins Chapter Nine.
The chapters recounting her personal background may strike some readers as incidental or overlong. Blakinger grew up in extreme privilege—her dad a Harvard-educated lawyer, her mom a Cornell-educated teacher—in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was the sort of home where TV and video games were banned and her mother gave the kids “standardized tests for fun,” Blakinger writes. When she decided to pursue costly ice skating ambitions, her parents could pay.
“You get shuffled around from cellblock to cellblock, or jail to jail, rearranged like a game of three-card monte designed to hide the overcrowding,” she describes.
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