Name: A Piece of Cake
ISBN: 9781400052295

Cupcake Brown

A Memoir

A Piece of Cake

Allison Blakeley

I picked up this book at read it within a couple days. A pretty easy read that sucks you in quickly. At points it got a little slow, but it kept me engaged through most of it. A great memoir that follows the journey of a girl growing up and overcoming some intense tragedies in her life.

Emily Perkovich

My initial thoughts reading this were that it was probably highly exaggerated. The more I read, the more it felt exactly the way most memoirs from non-writers (and even some from full time authors), which leaves me believing it is entirely true, but 3x longer than it needs to be. Like most trauma survivors, Cupcake ends up attracting trauma after trauma and continuing to push through. Her story is entertaining and, I would guess, eye opening or inspiring for many groups of people. I enjoyed most of these recollections, but they were told like an unedited journal account, often times adding in repetitive descriptions of the same situations happening at different times throughout her life. I, myself, am a terrible editor when it comes to this type of cutting back and culling, so I am not judging. I just felt like I had deja vu often and it made me not read thoroughly as I jumped through inner monologues about assaults and drug abuse that had already been verbalized previously.

Claire Cantlon

Amy Pelham

Charles McNeilll

Sarai Johnson

Jaymie Lemke

Gem Koeman

Ariana

Gina luneckas

Courtney Sutton

Meredith kirby

Hannah

Jessica Golden

Tiffany Robinson

Patty M.

Kate Baldwin

Becca Futrell

The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller 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. 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. 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. At just 16 she stumbled into the terrifying world of the gangsta, dealing drugs, hustling and only just surviving a drive-by shooting. Ironically, it was Cupcake's rapid descent into the nightmare of crack cocaine addiction that finally saved her. After one four-day crack binge she woke up behind a dumpster. 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. Astonishingly, Cupcake turned her life around and this is her brutally frank, startlingly funny story. 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. It is also the most genuinely affecting rollercoaster ride through hell and back that you will ever take.

Mahasin S Ameen

Dani C

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