In search of what one calls family: the new dizzyingly funny novel by Sebastian Stuertz.

Sebastian Stuertz takes us on a rollercoaster ride into adulthood. A dizzyingly funny and captivating novel about friendship, love, patchwork chaos, and the greatest freedom of all - the freedom to start anew again and again. Hamburg, summer 2019. Alina is new at her school, but she quickly becomes the cool nerd girl because she has programmed her own app: a mini social network just for the 13th grade. It could have been a perfect start - if her mother hadn't ended up in bed with Mr. Carstensen, the father of the idiotic class representative Corvin, right after the first parents' evening. Even worse, Alina and her mother, who makes a living as a professional clown, soon get kicked out of their shared apartment. There's no room for her at Dad's; he has three other kids and doesn't want to take care of Alina too. So she has to move in with the Carstensens, which is complete madness: Corvin's place is home to spiders and giant centipedes, his sister Nina has a second identity, and there’s another dark family secret that will soon turn everything upside down.