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Most Anticipated YA by BuzzfeedA fresh spin on the cult-classic Election meets Darius the Great Is Not Okay in Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win when an international incident crashes into a high school election, and Jasmine is caught between doing the right thing and chasing her dream.It's 1979, and Jasmine Zumideh is ready to get the heck out of her stale, Southern California suburb and into her dream school, NYU, where she'll major in journalism and cover New York City's exploding music scene.There's just one teeny problem: Due to a deadline snafu, she maaaaaaybe said she was Senior Class President-Elect on her application -- before the election takes place. But honestly, she's running against Gerald Thomas, a rigid rule-follower whose platform includes reinstating a dress code -- there's no way she can lose.
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My grandmother began my obsession with reading when I was four, and I won an essay contest in second grade that included a trip to Knott's Berry Farm (I got duped--it was only to see the Fake Liberty Bell) . I write young adult fiction featuring Iranian American heroines (whom I *never* encountered growing up) , who make messy, complicated choices that rapidly snowball into avalanches. My debut novel JASMINE ZUMIDEH NEEDS A WIN is releasing on 11. 1.22 from Wednesday Books.
