A piece of cake

The title of my book is A Piece of Cake. This book is a non-fiction memoir written by Cupcake Brown. She is from San Diego, California Cup cake grew throughout her life dealing with many tribulations. However, in the end she morphed into very successful women. Cupcake found her mom dead at the tender age of 11. After her mom’s death she went to numerous foster homes, while dealing with abusive behaviors. Her living conditions were so horrible that she often ran away. Cupcake needed a way to survive, so at the young age of 11 she started prostituting, “You grow up fast living on the streets. Very fast. I walked differently and talked differently than the little girl who’d found her mother dead. I didn’t think of turning tricks as prostitution. I saw it as a job: it afforded me food and shelter (p 78).” Surely Cupcake’s unfortunate life snatched her innocence away sooner than necessary. As a result to Cupcake’s prostituting she became addicted to drugs. Cupcake looked up to drugs as n release to all of her problems. Unfortunately, by the age of 12 there wasn’t a drug she hadn’t tried. Cupcake used drugs to forget about unethical things to survive like stealing and prostituting. By the time she was 17 she found a job and got her own place. Her drug addiction took control of her, “Today I sold all of the furniture in my apartment because I need some crystal [meth] (p 234).” This is evidence that her drug problem spiraled out of control. By the time she was 24 she realized her life had gotten out of control. With the help of Cupcake’s relatives she got cleaned up. She finally admitted to her addiction of multiple drugs. Her family sent her to a rehab center; in addition she went to college. Cup cake graduated and perused her career as a lawyer. She doesn’t allow herself to forget about her past, instead she uses her past as a motivator to do her best every day. Using her past as a motivator is one of the reasons she decided to write her memoir, “Shortly