Black Buck: A Read with Jenna Pick

Read March 2021 NOTES 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 of his life and his relationship with his family and friends. The book is satire at its best. The characters are rich, the book is so well written that the pages just zoomed by. You as the reader will experience all of the emotions when reading: happiness, sadness, frustration, etc.

I enjoyed the story by itself. The way it was written was good too. I imagine this being required reading in salesmanship class or like apart of an entrepreneurial curriculum.