White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege is a memoir about acknowledging the harm of privilege and responding to that harm with love. Beginning with her childhood in North Carolina and tracing her life through studying at Princeton to raising her children, Amy Julia explores her role in a culture that constructs dividing walls around racial identity, ability, and economic status. As she reflects on her daughter Penny, who has Down syndrome, Amy Julia considers how embracing our common humanity can begin to heal the cultural divisions of ability, race, ethnicity and social class. She invites readers “to consider the reality of privilege, the benefits and wounds that come from it, and whether we can respond to it with generosity, humility, and hope.”