Acceptance A Memoir
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Auteur:
Emi Nietfeld
- Engels
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- 9780593489499
- 01 augustus 2023
- 368 pagina's
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Nietfelds gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the heros journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a remarkable memoir. The New York Times Book Review
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, examining societys fixation with resilienceand its cost
As 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 overcomer, made stronger by all that she had endured.
The truth was more complicated. Emis mom was a charming hoarder who had her put on antipsychotics but believed in her daughters brillianceunlike the Minnesotan foster family who banned her pornographic art history flash cards (of Michelangelos David). Emis other 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 didnt necessarily 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 overcomeand find contentment on your own terms.
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, examining societys fixation with resilienceand its cost
As 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 overcomer, made stronger by all that she had endured.
The truth was more complicated. Emis mom was a charming hoarder who had her put on antipsychotics but believed in her daughters brillianceunlike the Minnesotan foster family who banned her pornographic art history flash cards (of Michelangelos David). Emis other 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 didnt necessarily 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 overcomeand find contentment on your own terms.
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