![]() ![]() But there comes a point in her preteen years-maybe it’s the night she first tries to run away and is exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex all at once-when Cupcake’s story shifts from a tear-jerking tragedy to a dark comic blues opera. ![]() It begins as the story of a girl orphaned twice over, once by the death of her mother and then again by a child welfare system that separated her from her stepfather and put her into the hands of an epically sadistic foster parent. You have in your hands the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. ![]() 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, or homelessness.Ĭupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. ![]()
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