Earth to Kat Vespucci

What do you do when your sweetheart of five years dumps you for someone else before your senior year of college? Flee the country obviously. A Jersey girl through and through Kat Vespucci a conservative American college student escapes a nasty break-up by spending her senior year studying abroad in Berlin Germany. She really wanted to travel to London but her parents insisted she learn something about her roots.<p> Having rarely left her home state of New Jersey let alone travel to a foreign country Kat is completely unprepared for what lies ahead. Strange European customs classmates from the former Eastern Bloc anti-Americanism German bureaucracy history she's never heard of and the persistent flasher who lurks in her neighborhood all catch Kat by surprise. Meanwhile she searches for her Uncle Otto a relative the family hasn't seen since the war.<p> At first she feels like a house cat dropped into a lair of lions yet she somehow manages to land and stay on her feet. Earth to Kat Vespucci is a comic coming-of-age story about a young woman who does not discover herself and where she comes from until she leaves.