Booksellers, watch out-Cupcake's gonna sell like hotcakes. Brown conveys this all in gritty detail, and her struggle to come clean and develop her potential-she's now an attorney with a leading California firm and a motivational speaker-ends her story on a high note. It begins as the story of a girl orphaned twice over, once by the death of. It wasn't until she woke up behind a Dumpster one morning, half-dressed and more than half-dead, that she admitted she needed help. This is the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake.

Before long she was a 'trash-can junkie,' taking anything and everything. A boyfriend taught her to freebase, but then there was crack, which was easier. Almost 16, having barely survived a shooting, she decided to quit gangbanging. Eventually she went to live with a great-aunt in South Central L.A., where she joined a gang. Her next foster father traded her LSD and cocaine for oral sex. A prostitute taught her to drink, smoke marijuana and charge for sex. Brown got better and better at running away. He then left them with an abusive foster mother who encouraged her nephew to rape Brown repeatedly. Custody of Brown and her brother was given to a stranger-their birth father-who only wanted their social security checks. Click here to purchase this book.Ĭupcake Brown (that's her real name) was 11 in 1976 when her mother died. Cupcake Brown is a survivor and her story is an affirmation of the strength of the human spirit. I can not resist a story about someone who has triumphed over tremendous adversity. Change her life or die.īrutally frank and startlingly funny, A Piece of Cake is the remarkable true story of a resilient spirit who triumphed over the very worst that life could throw at her.Books: A Piece of Cake Why I am recommending this book: Half-dressed and more than half-dead, she knew she had a choice. After one crack binge she woke up behind a dumpster. Before long she had stumbled head first into a world of gangs and extreme violence. She fed her appetite for drink and drugs by selling the only thing she had. Moved from one disastrous placement to the next, like so many, she was neglected and sexually abused. That's when things got really interesting.Ĭupcake was just eleven years old when, orphaned, she entered the child welfare system. In this memoir, Cupcake's life proves to be anything but a. Orphan, runaway, addict, all before she was twenty. In this video I review the memoir by Cupcake Brown called 'A Piece of Cake'. This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown. 'Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.' Washington Post

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