Used Book in Good ConditionProduct DescriptionThere 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 or homelessness.
Cupcake Brown survived all these things before shed even turned twenty.
And thats when things got interesting&.
You have in your hands the strange heart-wrenching and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. It begins as the story of a girl orphaned twice over once by the death of her mother and then again by a child welfare system that separated her from her stepfather and put her into the hands of an epically sadistic foster parent. But there comes a point in her preteen yearsmaybe its the night she first tries to run away and is exposed to drugs alcohol and sex all at oncewhen Cupcakes story shifts from a tear-jerking tragedy to a dark comic blues opera. As Cupcakes troubles grow so do her voice and spirit. Her gut-punch sense of humor and eye for the absurd along with her outsized will carry her through a fateful series of events that could easily have left her dead.
Young Cupcake learned to survive by turning tricks downing hard liquor partying like a rock star and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. She stumbled into gangbanging drug dealing hustling prostitution theft and eventually the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs. But Cupcakes unlikely tour through the cubicle world was paralleled by a quickening descent into the nightmare of crack cocaine use till she eventually found herself living behind a Dumpster.
Astonishingly she turned it around. With the help of a cobbled together family of eccentric fellow addicts and angelsa series of friends and strangers who came to her aid at pivotalmomentsshe slowly transformed her life from the inside out.
A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir youll ever read. Moving and almost transgressive in its frankness it is a relentlessly gripping tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contem-porary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown is a dynamic and utterly original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying?? startlingl