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Coles Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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A memoir detailing one woman's rise from hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness and her journey towards success and reconciliation.
"A thoughtful, well-crafted rejoinder to Claude Brown's . . . Manchild in the Promised Land , speaking to the power of hope and the institutional changes needed to make hope possible." — Kirkus Reviews
Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, C. Nicole Mason was raised by a beautiful, but volatile,sixteen-year-old single mother. Early on, she learned to navigate between an unpredictable home life and school where she excelled.
By high school, Mason was seamlessly straddling two worlds. The first, a cocoon of familiarity where street smarts, toughness and the ability to survive won the day. The other, foreign and unfamiliar with its own set of rules, not designed for her success. In her Advanced Placement classes and outside of her neighborhood, she felt unwelcomed and judged because of the way she talked, dressed and wore her hair.
After moving to Las Vegas to live with her paternal grandmother, she worked nights at a food court in one of the Mega Casinos while finishing school. Having figured out the college application process by eavesdropping on the few white kids in her predominantly Black and Latino school along with the help of a long ago high school counselor, Mason eventually boarded a plane for Howard University, alone and with $200 in her pocket.
While showing us her own path out of poverty, Mason examines the conditions that make it nearly impossible to escape and exposes the presumption harbored by many—that the poor don't help themselves enough.
"Mason vividly illustrates the grit, determination, and "herculean effort" necessary to reframe a young life steeped in unyielding poverty." — Publishers Weekly
A memoir detailing one woman's rise from hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness and her journey towards success and reconciliation.
"A thoughtful, well-crafted rejoinder to Claude Brown's . . . Manchild in the Promised Land , speaking to the power of hope and the institutional changes needed to make hope possible." — Kirkus Reviews
Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, C. Nicole Mason was raised by a beautiful, but volatile,sixteen-year-old single mother. Early on, she learned to navigate between an unpredictable home life and school where she excelled.
By high school, Mason was seamlessly straddling two worlds. The first, a cocoon of familiarity where street smarts, toughness and the ability to survive won the day. The other, foreign and unfamiliar with its own set of rules, not designed for her success. In her Advanced Placement classes and outside of her neighborhood, she felt unwelcomed and judged because of the way she talked, dressed and wore her hair.
After moving to Las Vegas to live with her paternal grandmother, she worked nights at a food court in one of the Mega Casinos while finishing school. Having figured out the college application process by eavesdropping on the few white kids in her predominantly Black and Latino school along with the help of a long ago high school counselor, Mason eventually boarded a plane for Howard University, alone and with $200 in her pocket.
While showing us her own path out of poverty, Mason examines the conditions that make it nearly impossible to escape and exposes the presumption harbored by many—that the poor don't help themselves enough.
"Mason vividly illustrates the grit, determination, and "herculean effort" necessary to reframe a young life steeped in unyielding poverty." — Publishers Weekly
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