It is also the most genuinely affecting rollercoaster ride through hell and back that you will ever take.Ĭupcake Brown was not born into a life of privilege, intellectual stimulation, or professional dynamics. Unlike any memoir you will ever read, A Piece of Cake is a redemptive, gripping tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it. Half-dressed and half-dead, she finally realized she had to change her life or die on the streets - another trash-can addict, another sad statistic.Īstonishingly, Cupcake turned her life around and this is her brutally frank, startlingly funny story. After one four-day crack binge she woke up behind a dumpster. Ironically, it was Cupcake's rapid descent into the nightmare of crack cocaine addiction that finally saved her.

At just 16 she stumbled into the terrifying world of the gangsta, dealing drugs, hustling and only just surviving a drive-by shooting. But there comes a point in her preteen years - maybe it's the night she first tries to run away and is exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex all at once - when Cupcake's story shifts from a tear-jerking tragedy to a dark, deeply disturbing journey through hell.Ĭupcake learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast.

'Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she is orphaned and placed in the 'care' of sadistic foster parents.

of a remarkable life filled with pain and wisdom, hope and redemption.' - San Fracisco Chronicle ' reflects now with insight and honesty on her experiences. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.Ī Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness.Ĭupcake Brown survived all these things before she'd even turned twenty.Īnd that's when things got interesting.

Her life is nothing short of a miracle.'- Chicago Sun-Times Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake

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