A Piece of Cake: A Memoir
by Cupcake Brown
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Author: Cupcake BrownEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-04-10
ISBN: 1400052297
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: a story of triumph over adversity
Summary: 5 Stars
I just couldn't put this book down..even though it is over 500 pages long, I read it in just a few days. Life suddenly takes a dramatic turn for the worse for Cupcake when she wakes up one morning to find her mother dead. She is just eleven years old and her brother Larry a couple of years older. Thinking everything will be okay as she can can go and live with her dad she then finds out he isn't her biologocal father. He is someone who she later refers to as sperm donot, thinking he will get his hands on the insurance money he comes forward to take the kids. Finding that the money is in a trust and the kids won't get any of it till they are 18 he ships them off to live with a foster mother. She is only in it for the money fostering brings and illtreats all the kids, starving them and beating them severely. However her own daughter Connie is spoilt and gets anything she wants. Cupcake runs away, the first of many runaways and returns to Diane (the foster mother.) Cupcake learns how to survive on the streets by prostituting herself, she begins drinking and taking drugs to dull the pain of everyday life. She continues on this downward spiral till one day she reaches rock bottom she gets herself admitted to rehab and although she does relapse to the drink she finally getes herself together even completing her education and passing with high marks in law school, she then passes the bar exam and now practises as a lawyer. Although the beginning of this book is very painful to read the way she eventually makes something of her life makes you really ahpy for her in the end. You can't help liking and admiring this woman. I throroughly recommend this book.
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