Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

The memoir of an NYC-raised former Wall Street broker. As an ambitious 19-year-old, Fabré thought her new job as a cold caller for the brokerage firm VTR Capital was a step towards success. But then she learned firsthand that the field was rank with inequality and built on using the labor of women and people of color to prop up the careers of white male brokers. Fabré writes that grit—formed by a South Bronx childhood with a Haitian-born mother—helped her survive the boiler room and claw her way to becoming a high-powered broker herself. Her prose and attitude toward her career—and why she eventually left it—are no-nonsense and unblinkered, keeping her account engaging, whether she’s relating her childhood trick of reselling lunch tickets to fellow students or the over-the-top excesses of parties in the Hamptons.