Dimensions
203 x 134 x 20mm
Rachel Shukert has a nasty habit of falling flat on her face -- literally, figuratively, and often after drinking several oversized glasses of Chianti in the company of non-English speaking men.
A performer, playwright, comedian, and author, Rachel spent her twenties toeing the waters of adulthood in New York City. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, where she spent her awkward formative years in a 25-person, all-Jewish elementary school, Rachel graduated from NYU with a degree in acting, no money, and big dreams of "making it big." Too bad she had the same plan as everyone else living in tiny studios in outer Brooklyn with six roommates, cans of tuna, and boxed wine.
After scoring a coveted, non-paying, non-speaking, "male" role in a play with a European tour and a famous, if surly, director, Rachel finally has her big break. And after a fluke at customs in Vienna, her golden ticket-an unstamped passport and free reign to "find herself" in Europe. In a grand tour of Vienna, Zurich, and finally Amsterdam, in the home of a loveable gay Dutch couple, Rachel's hilariously epic escapades leave the reader laughing, and wondering how she possibly made it off the continent alive-her face and liver both intact. From a dental emergency that almost ends in a threesome with Italian men, to a run-in with sausage loving neo-Nazis and an affair with a 40 year-old Swiss man named Berthold, Rachel's story bounces through tricky relationships, drunken mischief, hilarious miscommunication, and the reality-adjusting growing pains that every twenty-something faces when sent off to negotiate "the real world."
