A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Name: A Piece of Cake: A Memoir
Brand: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
SKU: SP-9781400052295
Price: 30.00 USD
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Marc Notes:
Includes readers group guide: (p. [471]-472).;This book is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving in its frankness, it is a relentless tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown is a dynamic and original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take.--From publisher description.

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

Brief Description:
This book is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving in its frankness, it is a relentless tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown is a dynamic and original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take.--From publisher description.

Publisher Marketing:
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

Review Citations:

Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 72 (EAN 9781400052295, Paperback)
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/15/2005 pg. 42 (EAN 9781400052288, Hardcover)
Publishers Weekly 11/21/2005 pg. 36 (EAN 9781400052288, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2005 pg. 1306 (EAN 9781400052288, Hardcover)
Booklist 02/15/2006 pg. 36 (EAN 9781400052288, Hardcover)
Essence 03/01/2006 pg. 80 (EAN 9781400052288, Hardcover)
Ebony 03/01/2006 pg. 28 (EAN 9781400052288, Hardcover)
Library Journal 02/15/2006 (EAN 9781400052288, Hardcover)