Cupcake Brown grew up to be an author of a best seller and that just shows young girl that whatever traumatic events that took place in their life. That no one will keep you down, that no one will influence what you want to be when you grow up.

It gives you a little bit of hope inside that you will make it. It feels good to know that there’s someone that has gone there the same things as you and they can relate to your story. Cupcake Brown should be a spokesperson for inner-city kids and not just those kids, kids around the world that have suffered through the same things as she has. She herself is a strong women and does not let anyone bring her down she rose above all her problems all her drug use an all the abuse that she suffered as when she was a child. This was a powerful book and very heart breaking book I cried at some points because I have been threw some of the same events as Cupcake Brown. You just want to sit back in peace and quit and feel the intensity of this book.Īs I was reading this book I felt as if I was actually with Cupcake Brown and going through all the events that she went through. Cupcake Brown is an amazing character in this book and she goes through so many life changing events. This book will really make you think about what young girls go through on a daily bases. It is also the most genuinely affecting rollercoaster ride through hell and back that you will ever take.“A piece of cake” by Cupcake Brown is a very interesting and intense book. 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. 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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