Trespassing: My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege

In this autobiographical work, Parker describes her childhood in a middle-class black neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina, her encounters with black militancy at Radcliffe University, the prejudice she experienced working as an attorney at a conservative Wall Street firm and at American Express, and her decision to leave her high-paying, corporate career in 1986 and pursue her dream of being a novelist.