Black Buck A Novel

Mateo Askaripour

eBook - 2021

"Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high-wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy."—Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys"A hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. Askaripour has announced himself as a major talent of the school of Ralph Ellison, Paul Beatty, Fran Ross, and Ishmael Reed. Full of quick pacing, frenetic energy, absurd—yet spot on—twists and turns, and some of the funniest similes I've ever read, this novel is both balm and bomb."—Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored PeopleThere's nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone wit...h 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... more