Born Bright

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