Humor & Satire Ebooks
Escape the seriousness of the real world and indulge in some lols with Scribd’s selection of the best humor and satire ebooks. From dark humor and absurdist novels to YA humor books and comedians’ autobiographies, laughter really is the best medicine in these humor and satire bestsellers!
Escape the seriousness of the real world and indulge in some lols with Scribd’s selection of the best humor and satire ebooks. From dark humor and absurdist novels to YA humor books and comedians’ autobiographies, laughter really is the best medicine in these humor and satire bestsellers!
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Buck Written by Scribd Editors Black Buck, author Mateo Askaripour’s darkly funny satire, tells the story of unambitious twenty-two -year-old Darren, who is content to live with his mom in a Bed-Sty brownstone and work as a Starbucks barista in a New York office building, despite his high marks as the valedictorian of his high school. That all changes when he joins an elite sales team at a start-up tech company, where his position as the only Black employee gives him a new purpose in life. Darren reimagines himself as “Buck,” a ruthless salesman his friends and family don’t recognize. But a tragic turn of events at home makes Buck feel like he’s at his lowest point. In response he begins developing a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force. Askaripour’s work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement. He was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence, and his debut novel Black Buck was an instant New York Times bestseller. Black Buck is a razor-sharp skewering of America’s workforce, a sizzling debut work that explores race and ambition and sets the stage for a new vision of the American dream.
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