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A fresh spin on the cultclassic 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
Its 1979 and Jasmine Zumideh is ready to get the heck out of her stale Southern California suburb and into her dream school NYU where shell major in journalism and cover New York Citys exploding music scene
Theres just one teeny problem Due to a deadline snafu she maaaaaaybe said she was Senior Class PresidentElect on her applicationbefore the election takes place But honestly shes running against Gerald Thomas a rigid rulefollower whose platform includes reinstating a dress codetheres no way she can lose And she better not or shell never get into NYU
But then a reallife international incident turns the election upside down Iran suddenly dominates the nightly news and her opponent seizes the opportunity to stir up antiIranian hysteria at school and turn the electorate against her Her brother Ali is no help Hes become an outspoken advocate for Iran just as shes trying to downplay her heritage
Now as the white lie she told snowballs into an avalanche Jasmine is stuck between claiming her heritage or hiding it standing by her outspoken brother or turning her back on him winning the election or abandoning her dreams for good
Told with biting insight and fierce humor Susan Azim Boyers Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win is a fresh unforgettable story of one IranianAmerican young womans experience navigating her identity friendship family her future and a budding romance all set against lifechanging historical events with presentday relevance
A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books
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