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    Black Buck
    Black Buck
    Black Buck
    Audiobook11 hours

    Black Buck

    Written by Mateo Askaripour

    Narrated by Zeno Robinson

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    A New York Times Bestseller 
    A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
    Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

    “Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy.”
    —Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys

    “A hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. Askaripour has announced himself as a major talent of the school of Ralph Ellison, Paul Beatty, Fran Ross, and Ishmael Reed. Full of quick pacing, frenetic energy, absurd—yet spot on—twists and turns, and some of the funniest similes I’ve ever read, this novel is both balm and bomb.”
    —Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored People

    For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems.

    There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.

    An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother’s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor.

    After enduring a “hell week” of training, Darren, the only Black person in the company, reimagines himself as “Buck,” a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. But when things turn tragic at home and Buck feels he’s hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.

    Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of America’s workforce; it is a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 5, 2021
    ISBN9780358449331
    Black Buck
    Author

    Mateo Askaripour

    MATEO ASKARIPOUR’s work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement, no matter the obstacle. He was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 rising stars to make waves in 2021,” a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. His debut novel BLACK BUCK was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. He lives in Brooklyn. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter at @AskMateo.  

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    Readers find this title to be an incredible read with twists and turns that keep them engaged. The story is described as dope and the narrator is praised for enhancing the story. Some readers wished the book was longer. Overall, this book is highly recommended and the narrator is considered one of the best.

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    • 3/5
      It’s was better than ok, but not great, let alone good writing. A bit silly and over the top at times, especially with all the cussing - I got 2 hours left and seriously considering not finishing, but it’s so weak - I don’t even have to focus on the book and not miss a thing - so I may finish it as background noise.
    • 5/5
      YOOOOO! I did not expect the ending!!!! Loved the book. I don't know if it was just me but Buck has a different meaning (historically speaking) and when one of the characters spoke it, I automatically correlated it to that meaning ( due to the circumstances that surrounded the naming of the character from another character).

      I also loved the narrator, Zeno Robinson. I loved the way that he spoke, it enhanced the story.
    • 5/5
      This story stressed me out in the best way, with a lot of twists and turns I did not see coming. One of the few times that the blurbs about a book absolutely did not lie ??

      Such a great narrator too. One of the best I’ve listened on audio.
    • 5/5
      This book was so dope‼️ I'm mad it wasn't longer.
    • 5/5
      All the twists and turns and unsuspecting events made this an incredible read!