Title: The [Un]Popular Vote
Author: Jasper Sanchez
# of Pages: 416
Summary: Mark at first glace seems perfectly normal, he is in IB, senior year, at a high school where he knows almost no-one except a few friends that he recently met. He tries to keep is head down and act like the average cis-dude that everyone assumes he is. But he has a few secrets that if let out could throw his world into chaos not to mention defy the contract he made with his father, a congressman, who has renounced him and sent him to live with his mother after finding out that he had a son, and not a daughter. After a witnessing a homophobic bullying incident where the school's response is victim-blaming, Mark decides he is going to run for student government. A wonderful critic of politicians, societal structures and the general a**holery of life as a teenager, The (Un)Popular Vote is a brilliant and gripping novel with relatable and complex characters and a perfect message.
Representation: Transgender main character, pansexual main character, gay main character, Jewish main character, bisexual side character, asexual side character, lesbian side character, nonbinary side character, genderqueer side character, demigirl side character, Muslim side character
Content warning: transphobia, misgendering, deadnaming, homophobia, bullying, brief violence, slut shaming, depression, anxiety.
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