A Piece of Cake: A Memoir is a book about Cupcake Brown and it is written by her also, who was a child prositute and a crack addict. She is now an attorney for a major law firm.

Plot introduction

Cupcake Brown's mom died when she was 11, in 1976. The custody of her and her brother went to a stranger, their birth father, who only wanted their social security checks. Their father left them with an abusive foster mother. Their foster mother encouraged her nephew to rape Cupcake repeatedly. She learned how to drink, smoke marijuana, and charge for sex from a prositute. Her next foster father traded her LSD and cocaine for oral sex. She moved in with her great aunt in South Central L.A., where she joined a gang. She barely survived a shooting, when she was barely 16, which caused her to stop being a gang member. Her boyfriend taught her how to freebase, but there was crack which was easier. Soon, she was a trash-can junkie, taking everything and anything. When she woke up behind a dumpster one morning, half dressed and more than half dead, she admitted that she needed help.