A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Cupcake Brown

Feb 2006 · Sold by Crown

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake

“[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t 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 she’d even turned twenty. 

And that’s 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 you’ll ever read. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll 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 

Ratings and reviews

It was a very touching story of this young girl whom found her mom dead and found out that the father that loved her and was. There her whole life wasnt het father so she was taken and given to. These strangers who beat belittled and raped her. All this happened to a 11 year. Old. I loved and hated this book. It gave me mixed emotions. I was sad, hurt, I laughed, I was in shock. It is very much an interesting read. It will make u want to keep goin.

well let me just start off by saying I ♥ cupcakes lolz :^) but really this book its like confidence for someone to be able to go threw all of that and write about it and put it in a book takes a lot of confidence so... like it would be extra weird if someone said that they dont like this book then some wrong with them just sayin bless u Cupcake ♥﹏♥

SUCH AN AMAZING BOOK. Written so raw and honest, not only was it entertaining - it was absolutely inspiring. I could not put it down. Wonderfully written and an amazing story. Great motivation for anyone going through tough times. I am extremely picky about books, and the way the author "speaks" to the reader. If there is no connection, I put it down. This one - speaks directly to you. Congratulations Cupcake Brown, you did it.

About the author

Cupcake Brown practices law at one of the nation’s largest law firms and lives in San Francisco. Visit her website at cupcakebrown.com.