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She Turned Tricks at Age 11...

Troy
in Black Literature

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...Cupcake Brown, at 11 years of age, regularly engaged in prostitution and took drugs. 

 

A Piece of CakeCup, tells the story of her crazy life in her memoir, A Piece of Cake.  This is not a new book, but I had not thought about it in a while.  I figured there are many people who never heard about it so I shared into about it on social media, since sex, drugs, and dysfunction seems to plays well on social media.  

 

Seriously, the idea that Brown now runs a law practice just seems like a remarkable story.  I rediscovered this book as while updating the site with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's award winning books.  

 

I'm adding all the the BCALA award winning books to AALBC.com.  Actually most of the books are already on the site, they just have not been updated as winners of the award.  I've also updated the logic used to determine The Most Critically Acclaimed Books of the Last 40 Years. 

 

 

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