Black Buck: A Read with Jenna Pick
For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—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.
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I enjoyed this book. I didn't know how I would like it but I was surprised. I enjoyed the tips he included and I even enjoyed the pace of the book. I was waiting for the ball to drop.
Read March 2021
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S: Trash. This book was doing way too much and put me on a roller coaster.
T: Not the most fleshed out book in terms of character development and plot.
J: Don't do it.
B:
Get ready for a wild ride when you read Black Buck. This is a very interesting story about Darren Vender, a Black male employee from Starbucks who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to work in a tech startup company but once he starts the job his new role seems like the opportunity from hell. Microaggressions and racist interactions with coworkers ensue, but the opportunity to make it big causes Darren to make choices that will alter the course o...read more
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