The (Un)Popular Vote
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Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father.
Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son.
Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger.
The problem? No one really knows Mark. He didn’t grow up in this town, and his few friends are all nerds. Still, thanks to Scandal and The West Wing, they know where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover.
Soon Mark feels emboldened to engage with voters—and even start a new romance. But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to silence him, and the bully frontrunner standing in his way, Mark will have to decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as dangerous.
“Mind-bogglingly good. This is a novel that every teen needs.” —Kacen Callender, author of Felix Ever After
"Charming, stunning, and unapologetically queer." —Mason Deaver, bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best and The Ghosts We Keep
Jasper Sanchez
Jasper Sanchez s a transmasculine author from the heart of Northern California wine country. He earned his BA in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and his MA in cinema and media studies from UCLA. He now lives in Seattle with his cat, Simon, who might be more opinionated than he is. When he’s not writing, he can be found wandering museums, scouring the city for the best espresso, and annotating lists of his favorite Star Trek episodes. You can visit him online at www.jaspersanchez.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm skipping plot details other than to say the story is fresh and pulled me in quickly. As a 73 year old cisgender male who enjoys reading young adult fiction, this left me thinking of it as a giant 'nudge'. Granted, I grew up knowing a few gay kids and later discovered my dad was gay or bisexual, but the way life is today, the gender spectrum is way broader than 95% of the population can imagine. Reading this book not only entertained me, it expanded my understanding of the breadth and richness of that spectrum better than any book I've read to date. In a perfect world, I'd mandate a copy be part of every high school library collection.