Patricia Sewungu has penned an intriguing thought-provoking auto-biography “A PIECE OF CAKE” which she will launch in London on 11th July, 2015 at the Nile Bar & Restaurant, 435 West Green Road, London, N15 3PJ—and you are all invited. Of course you do not have to miss it.
Though the book looks at her side of the story, it surely captures our stories too—remember, we do not live in isolation and whatever happens to us is a repeat of what has already happened.
The book “brings the reader up close with the author through the ages. In the first pages of her calamity-packed addiction biography, she delves into being born in the greater Masaka district into a politically active family till today.
She takes a look back at growing up facing several stereotypes, taking us fast through early school and her stint as a nursing assistant in the course of her senior four vacation and not long after, she makes her debut to Kampala in search of the good life, the green grass, her much desired “Piece of Cake.”
This move was largely resultant of good reads and stories about Kampala from her friend Aeron Nakamya. Kampala wasn’t the much desired green grass she had anticipated. Not for her, Patricia Sewungu looks like the new Oprah with a rough, lurid, not entirely verifiable story to tell.
In the book, she piles on layer after layer of degradation and pain in quest of a better life. After finding Kampala not sufficing, and being the benefactor of the financial generosity of a friend, she leaves Uganda for London to buttress her search for cake.
Life in the Queens land doesn’t come easy, it took almost a decade and more before she could stabilise into work, loosing all her savings along the way. Life momentarily degenerates and she even ponders suicide but she was not yet done, not tiring and keeping on.
After 100 odd pages of smelly, scrappy, shame inducing experiences, Patricia describes hitting the roof and ascending success. Somehow, the late part of her biography manages to be humbly devout, with big hoops of joy for Patricia’s numerous victories.
” I asked God if He would give me an opening to a good life,” she writes. Always fulfilling her exact wishes, God provides. “PIECE OF CAKE” MY STORY sells a trip to hell and back as a tasty treat.”
You know what, mark the date down—it’s coming Saturday…