BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220712T230000Z DTEND:20220713T000000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Tom Perrotta at The Music Hall DESCRIPTION:Highly Anticipated Book of 2022 selected by: Oprah Daily\, Buzzfeed\, and TIME\n\nEvening's Moderator: Richard Russo\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author\n\nIn classic Perrotta style\, Tracy Flick Can't Win is a sharp\, darkly comic\, and pitch-perfect reflection on our current moment. Election fans and newcomers alike will love this compelling novel chronicling the second act of one of the most memorable characters of our time.\n\nTracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife\, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal\, Jack Weede\, abruptly announces his retirement\, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job.\n\nEnergized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion\, 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. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick\, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be.\n\nAs she broods on the past\, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. Is she really a shoo-in for the principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President's wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can't she ever get what she deserves?\n\nTom 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. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Highly Anticipated Book of 2022 selected by: Oprah Daily\, Buzzfeed\, and TIME
\n\nEvening&rsquo\;s Moderator: Richard Russo\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
\n\nIn classic Perrotta style\, \;Tracy Flick Can&rsquo\;t Win \;is a sharp\, darkly comic\, and pitch-perfect reflection on our current moment. \;Election \;fans and newcomers alike will love this compelling novel chronicling the second act of one of the most memorable characters of our time.
\n\nTracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife\, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal\, Jack Weede\, abruptly announces his retirement\, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job.
\n\nEnergized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion\, 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&mdash\;a ten-year-old daughter\, a needy doctor boyfriend\, and a burgeoning meditation practice. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick\, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be.
\n\nAs she broods on the past\, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. Is she really a shoo-in for the principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President&rsquo\;s wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can&rsquo\;t she ever get what she deserves?
\n\nTom 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.
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