Tracy Flick Can’’t Win

Now a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey, Tracy Flick is still ambitious but feeling stuck and underappreciated in midlife. Then longtime principal Jack Weede announces his retirement. Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life: a ten-year-old daughter, a needy doctor boyfriend, and a burgeoning meditation practice. When Tracy is enlisted to serve on the Selection Committee for the brand-new Green Meadow High School Hall of Fame, her male colleagues’ determination to honor Vito Falcone-- star quarterback of dubious character who had a brief, undistinguished career in the NFL-- triggers bad memories for Tracy. -- adapted from publisher info

Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of ten works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into critically acclaimed movies, and The Leftovers and Mrs. Fletcher, which were both adapted into HBO series. He lives outside Boston.