Book excerpt: "Tracy Flick Can't Win" by Tom Perrotta

Tracy Flick, the ambitious young protagonist who campaigned for high school president in Tom Perrotta's 1998 novel "Election" (memorably played by Reese Witherspoon in the film version) is back in Perrotta's sequel, "Tracy Flick Can't Win" (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, a division of Paramount Global).

In this darkly comic tale set more than two decades later, Flick, an assistant principal in a suburban New Jersey high school (and just as ambitious as ever), finds herself angling for the top job.

Read an excerpt below.