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Black Buck / Mateo Askaripour.

by Askaripour, Mateo.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

Men, Black -- Fiction.

Businesspeople, Black -- Fiction.

Businesspeople -- Fiction.

Success in business -- Fiction.

9780358380887 (hc.)

xi, 388 p. ; 22 cm.

"Read with Jenna"--cover.

"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. 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.

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