![]() ![]() This incredible tale begins in January 1976, in San Diego where a young Cupcake Brown tragically discovers her mother’s dead body. It is also the most genuinely affecting rollercoaster ride through hell and back that you will ever take. A Piece of Cake is an emotional and gritty true story of how a series of unfortunate events throws an innocent 11 year old head first into adulthood. 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. Astonishingly, Cupcake turned her life around and this is her brutally frank, startlingly funny story. In this book I met a woman who endured every conceivable horror but determinedly struggled her way to success. 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. 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. Cupcake learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast.Īt 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. 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. ![]()
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