A piece of cake: a memoir - cupcake brown

The bestselling memoir of Cupcake Browns harrowing and inspiring life from the streets to one of the nations largest law firms Rdazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetimeS (Washington Post Book World).

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake Cupcake] Browns confessional .

memoir is one you cant easily put down.

Her life is nothing short of a miracle.

-- Chicago Sun-Times 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.

Cupcake Brown survived all these things before shed even turned twenty.

And thats when things got interesting.

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.

She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs.

A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir youll ever read.

Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell youll ever take.

Praise for A Piece of Cake Brown] reflects now with insight and honesty on her experiences.

An engaging account .

of a remarkable life filled with pain and wisdom, hope and redemption.

-- San Fracisco Chronicle Dazzles you with the amazing change that is possible in one lifetime.

-- Washington Post.