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A Piece of Cake: A MemoirThere 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. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she'd even turned twenty. And that's when things got interesting You have before you the strange, heart wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. It begins as the story
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. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she'd even turned twenty. And that's when things got interesting...You have before you the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. 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. 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. As Cupcake's troubles grow, so do her voice and spirit. Her gut-punch sense of humor and eye for the absurd, along with her outsized will, carry her through a fateful series of events that could easily have left her dead. Young Cupcake learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, partying like a rock star, 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. But Cupcake's unlikely tour through the cubicle world was paralleled by a quickening descent into the nightmare of crack cocaine use, till she eventually found herself living behind a Dumpster. Astonishingly, she turned it around. With the help of a cobbled together family of eccentric fellow addicts and "angels"--a series of friends and strangers who came to her aid at pivotalmoments--she slowly transformed her life from the inside out. A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving and almost transgressive in its frankness, it is a relentlessly gripping 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 utterly original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 04/10/2007
ISBN: 9781400052295
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 72
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★★★★★ 1
Influencers writing books...
Format: Paperback
First off, if you really want to read a great book on plasma and consciousness, read Robert Temple - A New Science of Heaven. Everything is in there. Extremely well written and easy to follow. Less than half the price too for an actual book. If you then go with that understanding into the peruvian jungle you'll be fine.
Now, this one here is a different matter altogether:
Format
650+ pages(!) of poorly formatted and poorly written text. The book is physically humongous too! Why?
Constant text breaks and list type snippets make it hardly readable. This whole package could have been packed into half the amount of book. More is not better in this instance. Flow and framing is bad and superficial. It feels and reads like she is just listing things like in a high school essay rather than actually exploring the topic. Reminds me of internet bros that create these lists of stuff and think by just collecting and listing things, meaning and relevance emerges automatically. It doesn't. A good book knows flow and framing and takes the reader by the hand- not just stating or claiming things without proper context, real proof and relatability.
Relevance
Why is she in a position to talk about plasma and consciousness?
She had a difficult life and then meditated twice(!) and all of a sudden she is an expert on plasma consciousness? No framing in any of the chapters. Just blank statements and made up words that she trademarked. Not only one but at least three! How does she know these things? No personal examples or believable context. She basically says "here x-person said this - now I say that" Why? no one knows. Where is the proof and experience in what she says?
It's just loosely collected snippets of words and sentences that lack context and relevance. Example: The Kordilevksy clouds are located at the lagrange L4 and L5 points. No explanation what that really is. I'm sure most readers are not familiar with lagrange points. Or, anyone know what Tubulin Dimers are? What Dipoles are? "The sun maintains structural and rhythmic coherence via electromagnetic resonance" Really? How? why? Ah yes ,that explains and equates naturally with "when thoughts and emotions align, you enter a flow state" sure. ok. if you say so. Tons of examples like this.
Finally, apart form generic templates, simple "pay attention to this type exercises" and archetypal concepts and pretty meaningless 3d,4d 5d nomenclature, it completely lacks a "how to". How can one become a plasma being? Like, actually in real life? How does a life look like that is lived as a fully conscious and aware plasma consciousness? I guess I need to go onto her website and buy some of these trademarked programs.
Mabye, there is a reason why sages over the millennia have dedicated entire lifetimes to fashioning themselves and learning about themselves and their plasma beingness? If this was instagram easy through 2 meditations I'd like to know THAT secret. The sages of old have gone through long and arduous journeys to completely transform themselves and their bodies with years of yoga, qigong and psychedelics aka alchemy into said plasma beings. Some very few and far between just struck by cosmic plasma consciousness without really doing much. However, I don't find the evidence for either process having taken place with the author.
Conclusion
Overall, this book is a pretend in my opinion. She hides behind empty words that create the appearance of knowingness without being accurate, in-depth and in-detail, based on her own actual experiences with the matter. Fast social media marketing with typically inflated prices for low quality content, because "they are worth it".
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Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Wonderful
Format: Paperback
Absolutely adore this book and Dana’s enthusiasm. Highly recommend
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2026
★★★★★ 5
A big, beautiful, gift of a book!!
Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
I hadn’t even made it past the intro before I had to email Dana and thank her for this book. THAT is the energy this book contains.
Her heart-centered distillation of LOTS of research and knowledge connects the dots so effortlessly and joyfully.
It seems every time I pick up this book I feel inspired, smarter and connected to it ALL!
This book is a gift!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2025
★★★★★ 3
Book content good but formats for both kindle and hard copy versions are not as expected
Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
The info in the book is good however I originally purchased the kindle version but the format was difficult to read. It’s not like a regular kindle book. The book was beautiful and the pictures inside were in color.
So I decided to go ahead and order the hard copy even though it was very expensive. I received it today and it’s in all in black and white. No beautiful colored pictures.
For $45 it should be in color like the sample or kindle version. I spent $55 for both versions and neither is what I expected format wise. Just disappointing. It would be 5 stars of these issues were fixed. I attached a page of the kindle vs paperback.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2026
★★★★★ 5
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Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2026