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Black Buck / Mateo Askaripour.

Askaripour, Mateo, (author.).

Summary:

"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, 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. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, 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. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines himself as "Buck," a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. When things turn tragic at home, Buck begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America's sales force, setting off a chain of events that changes the game."--Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780358380887
  • ISBN: 035838088X
  • Physical Description: xi, 388 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

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General Note:
"Read with Jenna"--Book jacket.
Series information from jacket cover.

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Subject: African American young men > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Sales personnel > Fiction.
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FICTION / African American / Urban.
FICTION / Satire.
FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor.
African American men.
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Success in business.
Genre: Fiction.
Satirical literature.
Urban fiction.
Satirical literature.
Urban fiction.
Humorous fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

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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.

 

MATEO ASKARIPOUR's work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement, no matter the obstacle. He was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in Entrepreneur, Lit Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, Medium, 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 Twitter and Instagram at @AskMateo. 

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