![]() ![]() ![]() He’s become an outspoken advocate for Iran just as she’s trying to downplay her heritage. Iran suddenly dominates the nightly news, and her opponent seizes the opportunity to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria at school and turn the electorate against her. And she better not, or she’ll never get into NYU.īut then, a real-life international incident turns the election upside down. 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. 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. ![]() 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. A 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.
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