Story starts off great, with Ma, Mr. Rawlings, Jason, Soraya, Aziz, and Wally Cat, all supporting Darren in his very low key quest to find a dream job and life. Their reality grounds him as he heads off to be HNIC at Starbucks.
His life changes when he convinces a rich white customer to change from his regular order. He then manages to move into a lifestyle where he becomes whiter-than-white (by being Black and hurting Black people) as he alternately ignores (increasingly sick Ma), disses, beats up, throws out and generally betrays all of the good people who have trusted and loved him.
While reading the deal breaking advice is a fun diversion, accompanying him as he allows the white dude to often touch and regularly insult, physically, emotionally, and spiritually demean him along with the Boot Camp jerk offs of his precious company. I haven't met the Black, Hispanic, Asian, or White man or woman who would choose to endure this treatment, day after day.
The plot would be improved if shortened and the boring, contrived parts left out.
And, why didn't the compassionate Soraya and her dad let Mr. Rawlings move in?
And yeah, old Darren needs to look around and see that there are many white folks who can dance, that he should ask the rest of his Happy Campers if Frodo can join instead of making a unilateral Rhett decision.
And, too many "upside the heads" and "sucking teeth" = almost as annoying as the
"cutting eyes" of many other recent novels.
His life changes when he convinces a rich white customer to change from his regular order. He then manages to move into a lifestyle where he becomes whiter-than-white (by being Black and hurting Black people) as he alternately ignores (increasingly sick Ma), disses, beats up, throws out and generally betrays all of the good people who have trusted and loved him.
While reading the deal breaking advice is a fun diversion, accompanying him as he allows the white dude to often touch and regularly insult, physically, emotionally, and spiritually demean him along with the Boot Camp jerk offs of his precious company. I haven't met the Black, Hispanic, Asian, or White man or woman who would choose to endure this treatment, day after day.
The plot would be improved if shortened and the boring, contrived parts left out.
And, why didn't the compassionate Soraya and her dad let Mr. Rawlings move in?
And yeah, old Darren needs to look around and see that there are many white folks who can dance, that he should ask the rest of his Happy Campers if Frodo can join instead of making a unilateral Rhett decision.
And, too many "upside the heads" and "sucking teeth" = almost as annoying as the
"cutting eyes" of many other recent novels.