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Black buck / Mateo Askaripour.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xi, 388 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780358380887
  • 035838088X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Black buckDDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3601.S593 B57 2021
Summary: Twenty-two-year-old Darren lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant with him mother, who wants him to live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. Darren is content working at a Starbucks in Midtown Manhattan, hanging out with his girlfriend and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. An encounter with Rhett Daniels, the CEO of NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team. Darren, the only black person in the company, reimagines himself as "Buck," a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. When things turn tragic at home and Buck has hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America's sales force.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK Harrison Memorial Library FICTION Adult Fiction ASKARI M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31624003935863
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Twenty-two-year-old Darren lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant with him mother, who wants him to live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. Darren is content working at a Starbucks in Midtown Manhattan, hanging out with his girlfriend and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. An encounter with Rhett Daniels, the CEO of NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team. Darren, the only black person in the company, reimagines himself as "Buck," a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. When things turn tragic at home and Buck has hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America's sales force.

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