Acceptance

Emi Nietfeld’s brilliant, generation-defining memoir “Acceptance: A Memoir” explores foster care, homelessness, Harvard, and big tech. Emi thought attending a prestigious institution would be her only way out of her troubled upbringing as a homeless adolescent.

Her path to upward mobility, however, exposes the hefty price that resilience tales and cultural values exact. This gripping work subverts our ideas about overcoming hardship and finding fulfillment on one’s terms with dark humor.