Rachel chats with Emi Nietfeld, author of the debut memoir, ACCEPTANCE. ACCEPTANCE comes out on August 2, 2022, and follows Emi during her young adulthood, through the foster care system, mental health facilities, residence at an arts high school, temporary homelessness, and more on her way to college and beyond. Emi talks about the process of writing a memoir, plus recommendations for books she's loved recently.

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The Books We Talked About:

Acceptance by Emi Nietfeld

Blueprint your Bestseller by Stuart Horwitz

Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford 

NSFW by Isabel Kaplan 

Post Traumatic by Chantal B Johnson 

Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen 

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (audiobook) 

Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress