Summary

Corrections in Ink opens on a cold day in Ithaca right before Keri Blakinger, the author, is arrested for having a Tupperware container full of heroin. Chapter 1 introduces Blakinger as a senior at Cornell University. Her last English essay is late, but suddenly the late essay is now the least of her problems. Blakinger's day started out at the stash house mixing up coke and heroin in a spoon to get as high as possible. When she heads out to deliver the heroin to her boyfriend, Alex, she is craving a cigarette. All of a sudden, she is arrested and in the back seat of a patrol car.

Very soon, she nods out in the patrol car because of the eighty-milligram Oxycontins that she swallowed when she saw that she was going to be arrested. Her mind travels through her past and lands...