Buck rec center take goodson entrance1/20/2024 Askaripour makes it clear when the novel opens that Darren is also someone with untapped potential he’s 22, was a valedictorian at a magnet school for science, but he’s working in a Starbucks, moving up, but not really fully fulfilling the promise others saw in him as a teen. He’s a lot like most of us - good at some things, bad at others, mostly kind but sometimes hard-hearted, a good son, boyfriend, and friend. He is honest about himself and his own foibles. So I appreciated this invitation.īuck is a delightful narrator. Don’t go don blackface and an afro, but picture yourself as Black.” If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that a) that’s why I read, to put myself into another life for a few hundred pages and try to learn something about being human from their perspective and b) I’ve been working on being antiracist and one way to do that is to try to understand the experiences of people of color from their points of view. To white readers like me, Buck says, “I want you to think of yourself as an honorary Black person. He tells readers he wants to teach us how to sell, but he particularly wants to teach Black people how to sell. This is his debut, and he notes it “was written just for Black readers, though white readers are welcome to ‘come along for the ride.'”īlack Buck opens with a note from the main character, Darren Vender, known as Buck. Mateo Askaripour quit his day job to write, which is super inspiring. It was everything I’m looking for in a good read: smart, entertaining, thought provoking, funny, both heart-breaking and uplifting, ultimately about love and full of Truth with a capital T. I read Black Buck on a trip, straight through in a few hours.
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