Acceptance biography

Media Reviews

"A complex meditation on desperation, leveraging personal pain, and how the drive to achieve can be a gift and a pathology simultaneously...A powerful memoir of overcoming adversity that also effectively interrogates the concept of meritocracy." - Kirkus (starred review)

"Heart-pounding...Nietfeld's raw resilience and candor will keep readers enthralled until the very last page.

This hits hard." - Publishers Weekly

"[Nietfeld's] impressive debut is a radical probe into our society's insistence on resiliency through unthinkable struggles, leading readers to reexamine long-held definitions of success." - Booklist

"A gripping firsthand account of a teenager navigating homelessness and the foster care system.

It should appeal to many and may be of particular interest to school counselors, foster parents, psychologists, social workers, and others who work with children in difficult situations." - Library J