![]() ![]() ![]() There, in the cruel upside down,” Keri witnessed callous conditions and encountered women from all walks of life–women who would change Keri forever. Caught with a Tupperware container full of heroin, she was arrested and ushered into a holding cell, a county jail, and finally into state prison. ![]() Then, on a cold day during Keri’s senior year, the police stopped her. From her first taste of heroin, the next nine years would be a blur–living on the streets, digging for a vein, selling drugs and sex, eventually plunging off a bridge when it all became too much, all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. With all the intensity she saved for the ice, she dove into self-destruction. But when her skating partnership ended abruptly, her world shattered. Couple that with Keri’s electrifying writing, and I couldn’t put it down.Īn elite, competitive figure skater growing up, Keri Blakinger poured herself into the sport, even competing at nationals. I first downloaded a digital review copy of Corrections in Ink back in December and between then and getting the physical copy in January, I had forgotten that my initial inspiration for doing so was because Keri was a skater and it’d been awhile since I’d read a journalist’s memoir, my favorite subgroup of memoirs. ![]()
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