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&#8220Nitfeld&#8217gifts for capturing the fury of living at the
mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the
hero&#8217journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a
remarkable memoir.&#8221&#8212Th New York Times Book
ReviewA luminous,generation-defining memoir of foster care
and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech,examining
society&#8217fixation with resilience&#8212an its costAs a
homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota
Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was
the only escape from her dysfunctional childhood. But upward
mobility required crafting the perfect resilience narrative. She
had to prove that she was an &#8220ovrcomer,&#8221made
stronger by all that she had endured.The truth was more
complicated. Emi&#8217mom was a charming hoarder who
had her put on antipsychotics but believed in her

daughter&#8217brilliance&#8212unike the Minnesotan foster
family who banned her &#8220ponographic&#8221art history
flash cards (of Michelangelo&#8217David). Emi&#8217other
parent vanished shortly after coming out as trans, a situation
few understood in the mid-2000s. Her own past was filled with
secrets: mental health struggles, Adderall addiction, and the
unbecoming desperation of a teenager fending for herself. And
though Emi would go on to graduate from Harvard and
become a software engineer at Google, she found that
success didn&#8217tnecessarily mean safety.Both a chronicle
of the American Dream and an indictment of it, this searing
debut exposes the price of trading a troubled past for the
promise of a bright future. Told with a ribbon of dark humor,
Acceptance challenges our ideas of what it means to
overcome&#8212an find contentment on your own terms.