{"product_id":"black-buck","title":"Black Buck;  Mateo Askaripour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSorry to Bother You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wolf of Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Buck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanuary 5, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eMATEO ASKARIPOUR was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEntrepreneur\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedium\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, and his favorite pastimes include bingeing music videos and movie trailers, drinking yerba mate, and dancing in his apartment. BLACK BUCK is his debut novel. Follow him on \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/askmateo\"\u003eTwitter\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/askmateo\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e at @AskMateo. You can also \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/g3Vdo1\"\u003esubscribe to his monthly newsletter here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44647366689090,"sku":"9780358380887","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/buck.jpg?v=1679168176","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/black-buck","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}