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Narrated by:
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Zeno Robinson
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By:
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Mateo Askaripour
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.
There'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 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.
After 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.
Black Buck 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.
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Story: The story is engaging and funny enough that I sometimes forget that I’m consuming a book, rather, it seems more like a Netflix show. The drama, comedy, and sales acumen are all spot on and interlace at the right times in the most fluid way possible.
Performance: The narration by Zeno Robinson is spot on, adapting to the tone, inflection , and personality of each character. At points I found myself wondering who Zeno is. Is he a voice actor? A screen actor? How can he possibly match every bit of dialogue with what I was envisioning it would sound like from the characters? It added an additional sense of realism to an already entertaining book.
Overall: Many audiobooks seem a bit drawn out, as if the author was trying to fill a word count for a publisher. This story avoids all those pitfalls that most books succumb to. It is a VERY well crafted story with depth and nuance, which is matched by a top-tier audio performance. I would recommend this to either first-time audiobook listeners or seasoned audio veterans.
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