| Playing Time |
210645 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 303512 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Bahni Turpin. |
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Duration: 21:06:45. |
| Summary |
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 in your hands 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. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Brown, Cupcake.
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Brown, Cupcake -- Family.
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African American women -- California -- San Diego -- Biography.
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African Americans -- California -- San Diego -- Biography.
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African American families -- California -- San Diego.
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African Americans -- California -- San Diego -- Social conditions.
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Inner cities -- California -- San Diego.
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San Diego (Calif.) -- Biography.
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Turpin, Bahni.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781415926925 (OCoLC)63033036 |
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