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74/100Critics
60/100Scholars
Author:
Emi Nietfeld
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
August 2, 2022
Both a chronicle of the American Dream and an indictment of it, this debut exposes the price of trading a troubled past for the promise of a bright future.
What The Reviewers Say
Overcoming adversity is a classic plot arc among recent blockbuster coming-of-age memoirs.
With conventional framing, Emi Nietfeld's life story could be fodder for a Lifetime movie.
With insight and humor, the memoir interrogates the social structures that sometimes supported and frequently ensnared Nietfeld as a young woman. In doing so, she strips the rags-to-riches fairy tale of its façade and incites urgent questions about true consent and agency.
Looking back from a vista of professional security, somewhere on the far side of her own ambition, Nietfeld writes to survey the tumultuous psychological landscape of class mobility. In breaking from the Cinderella-story convention of social mobility memoirs, Acceptance achieves exceptional candor and beauty.
