![]() Booksellers, watch out-Cupcake's gonna sell like hotcakes. Brown conveys this all in gritty detail, and her struggle to come clean and develop her potential-she's now an attorney with a leading California firm and a motivational speaker-ends her story on a high note. It wasn't until she woke up behind a Dumpster one morning, half-dressed and more than half-dead, that she admitted she needed help. Before long she was a "trash-can junkie," taking anything and everything. A boyfriend taught her to freebase, but then there was crack, which was easier. Almost 16, having barely survived a shooting, she decided to quit gangbanging. Eventually she went to live with a great-aunt in South Central L.A., where she joined a gang. Her next foster father traded her LSD and cocaine for oral sex. A prostitute taught her to drink, smoke marijuana and charge for sex. ![]() Brown got better and better at running away. ![]() This incredible tale begins in January 1976, in San Diego where a young Cupcake Brown tragically discovers her mother’s dead body. He then left them with an abusive foster mother who encouraged her nephew to rape Brown repeatedly. A Piece of Cake is an emotional and gritty true story of how a series of unfortunate events throws an innocent 11 year old head first into adulthood. Custody of Brown and her brother was given to a stranger-their birth father-who only wanted their social security checks. Cupcake Brown (that's her real name) was 11 in 1976 when her mother died. ![]()
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