Custody of Brown and her brother was given to a stranger their birth father who only wanted their social security checks. “Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.” - Washington PostĬupcake Brown (that's her real name) was 11 in 1976 when her mother died. 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

The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake.

A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown