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 wasn't until she woke up behind a Dumpster one morning, half-dressed and more than half-dead, that she admitted she needed help.
The memoir is an inspirational story of a young girl lost in the system, left to fend for herself, and forced to survive on her own.
Before long she was a "trash-can junkie," taking anything and everything. Cupcake’s New York Times best-selling memoir, A Piece Of Cake is available at book stores everywhere. 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. 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.Cupcake Brown (that's her real name) was 11 in 1976 when her mother died. Half-dressed and more than half-dead, she knew she had a choice. After one crack binge she woke up behind a dumpster. Brown is the author of the New York Times bestselling A Piece of Cake: A Memoir. After graduating from law school in 2001, she went on to practice at Bingham McCutchen, one of the nation’s largest law firms, and became a motivational speaker. Before long she had stumbled head first into a world of gangs and extreme violence. Cupcake Brown was born in the heart of the San Diego ghetto. 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. Orphan, runaway, addict, all before she was twenty.
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown. ‘Phenomenal woman’ The Oprah Magazine ‘Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.’ Washington Post The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling true story of Cupcake Brown- orphan, runaway, addict, a child turning tricks on the street until one morning on her journey through hell she woke up and knew she had to change her life or die.
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