The Tracy Flick of both “Election” and “Tracy Flick Can’t Win” is much more sympathetic than the film, primarily because the medium of fiction allows us access to Tracy’s interior in a ...

Tracy Flick, the ambitious high school student from Tom Perrotta's "Election," is now an assistant principal in the sequel, "Tracy Flick Can't Win" Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

When we last saw Tracy Flick, the ambitious high school girl in Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel, “Election,” she’d been named student body president. But hers was a soiled victory that came only ...

Tracy Flick is back — this time in middle age. How did life turn out for her? NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Tom Perrotta about his new novel, Tracy Flick Can't Win.

In “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” Perrotta addresses a multiplicity of issues within the span of 272 pages. Here’s a few: CTE (football-related brain damage), racism, lust, ...

The much-maligned heroine of Election returns in Tracy Flick Can't Win. Nearly 25 years later, Tom Perrotta looks back on how the culture misunderstood Tracy—and how she misunderstood herself.

Tracy Flick Can’t Win. By Tom Perrotta. Scribner, 272 pages, $27. Stuart Miller has written about books for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other publications.

Tom Perrotta never intended to write another book about Tracy Flick. Hell, he hadn’t even planned on Tracy being the central player in Election. His original idea for that 1998 novel, Perrotta ...

You probably remember Tracy Flick. She’s the driven high school senior who had an affair with her English teacher and was voted class president despite the sleazy efforts of another teacher to ...

Tracy Flick, the straight-A striver from the 1990s immortalized by Reese Witherspoon, is finally joining the debate about Tracy Flick. “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” a novel out June 7 from Tom ...

One of my favorite things about reading a highly satisfying novel is reaching the final page and experiencing that bittersweet sensation of the story ending, while also having the distinct feeling ...

Tracy Flick is a Rorschach test for how we think about women, ambition, and the power dynamics of sex. To understand how Tracy transitioned from baby Hitler to symbol of wronged women everywhere ...