RaveSouthern Review of BooksWith 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 ... Nietfeld crafts a narrative with all the propulsion of a novel ... Nietfeld characterizes the adults around her with humor and empathy ... She refuses to let her own story be reduced to such a punchline ... Acceptance is a gripping, urgent memoir in an era when social mobility feels beset from all sides. Nietfeld recasts the myth of resilience as a veil for society’s failure to empower vulnerable individuals.
