Black buck / Mateo Askaripour.
"A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"-- Provided by publisher.
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street - a blazing, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cultlike, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems. 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. -- From dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780358380887
- ISBN: 035838088X
- Physical Description: xi, 388 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Read with Jenna" -- cover |
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Subject: | African American young men > Fiction. African Americans > Fiction. Sales personnel > Fiction. Success in business > Fiction. > Fiction. |
Genre: | Satirical literature. Urban fiction. |
Available copies
- 40 of 40 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 40 total copies.
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Abington Community Library | FICTION ASKARIP (Text) | 50687011760413 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Albright Memorial Library | FICTION ASKARIP (Text) | 50686015669919 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | F ASK (Text) | 33240004878453 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bangor Public Library | F ASK (Text) | 75011000347036 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Boyertown Community Library | ASK (Text) | 33249024145074 | Fiction | Available | - |
Cambria County Library | FICTION Ask (Text) | 85131001752659 | CACM Fiction | Available | - |
Carbondale Public Library | FICTION ASKARIP (Text) | 50688010783000 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | FIC ASKARIPOUR, MATEO (Text) | 36446002029760 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Exeter Community Library | ASK (Text) | 33249024769717 | Fiction | Available | - |
Fleetwood Area Public Library | ASK (Text) | 33249023143807 | Fiction | Available | - |
Gettysburg Library | FIC ASKARIPOUR MATEO (Text) | 35740635693781 | Fiction | Available | - |
Hamburg Public Library | ASK (Text) | 33249023624210 | Fiction | Available | - |
Highland Community Library | F ASK (Text) | 35610000971080 | HGHM Fiction | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | F ASK (Text) | 30298100581655 | Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction Askaripour (Text) | 39427103557435 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kutztown Community Library | ASK (Text) | 33249024637120 | Fiction | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | FIC ASK (Text) | 33400001506974 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults ASK Staff Access Fiction (Text) | 33454005787940 | Martin Archives | Available | - |
Milton Public Library | A ASK (Text) | 33226000929317 | MLTM Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Parkland Community Library | F ASK (Text) | 34422007195536 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County | Adults ASK Fiction (Text) | 34318001180492 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Pottsville Free Public Library | FIC (Text) | 30003009031723 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
RPL - Northeast Branch | Fiction Askaripour (Text) | 33223008814153 | Fiction | Available | - |
RPL - Southeast Branch Library | Fiction Askaripour (Text) | 33223008860206 | Fiction | Available | - |
Schuylkill Haven Free Public Library | F ASK (Text) | 3SHPL000683957 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Shenandoah Area Free Public Library | F ASK (Text) | 3SFPL00004704L | Fiction | Available | - |
South Fork Public Library | FIC Ask (Text) | 31814900618270 | SFKM Fiction | Available | - |
Valley Community Library | FICTION ASKARIP (Text) | 50690111281900 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Whitehall Township Public Library | F ASKARIPOUR, MATEO (Text) | 36305002921139 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Wyomissing Public Library | F ASK (Text) | 35012001480361 | Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009500233 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Clymer Library | FIC ASK (Text) | 32596000462951 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dimmick Main Library | F ASK (Text) | 304441003407783 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | ASKARIPOUR (Text) | 31901004476067 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Palmer Branch | ASKARIPOUR (Text) | 31901004781367 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Hughes Library | F ASK (Text) | 32378004941177 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Library | F ASK (Text) | 30352101268063 | Fiction | Available | - |
Pocono Mountain Public Library | F Ask (Text) | 35540000060325 | PMPL 2nd Floor Fiction | Available | - |
Wayne County Public Library | FIC ASK (Text) | 31843001268529 | Fiction | Available | - |
Western Pocono Community Library | F Ask (Text) | 31119000048760 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |