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Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
?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 People 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 seemsThere?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