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Black Buck By Mateo Askaripour Drops Today! Happy Book Birthday! šŸ„³

Debut author Mateo Askaripour‘s ā€œraw and intimateā€ novel ā˜›BLACK BUCK [pub:Ā Houghton Mifflin] releases today. If youā€™re thinking, ā€œWait. Isnā€™t ā€˜Black Buckā€™ offensive?ā€ Yup. And itā€™s meant to be so. Not to mention the main character works at Starbucks, plus thereā€™s the almighty Black dollarā€”all of which contribute to the provocative title. Can’t wait to finish this “hilarious, gleaming satire.” I’ll update this post when I do. Follow Mateo on Instagram and catch the Brooklyn-based author in conversation with Insecure’s Jay Ellis onĀ Tue, Jan 12, 2021 9:00 PM EST. Also, Mateo is #TeamLawrence. The event is free, but support indie bookstores!

 

 

Black Buck Synopsis FromĀ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:

For fans ofĀ Sorry to Bother YouĀ andĀ The Wolf of Wall Streetā€”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.

Thereā€™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 motherā€™s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYCā€™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 ā€œhell weekā€ of training, Darren, the only Black person in the company, reimagines himself as ā€œBuck,ā€ a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. But when things turn tragic at home and Buck feels heā€™s hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate Americaā€™s sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.

 

Black BuckĀ is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of Americaā€™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.

 

Peace, Love, & Beauty,
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