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Schadenfreude is the storyplot of any teenage Jewish intellectual who comes in love - in love with a boy (who breaks her center), a vocabulary (that's practically impossible to master), a culture (that's nihilistic but punctual), and a landscape (that's amazing when there's not a wall in the way). Rebecca is an everyday, misunderstood '90s teen with a love for Pearl Jam and Ethan Hawke circa Certainty Bites until two men walk into her senior high school civics category: Dylan Gellner, with deep-brown sight and an even deeper heart, and Franz Kafka, hitching a ride in Dylan's backpack. These two men will be the ax to the iced sea that is Rebecca's spirit, and what moves forth is a love for all things German. First love might be fleeting, but Kafka is forever, and in pursuit of this elusive love Rebecca will spend two decades stuttering and stumbling through German sentences, trying to make an impression on a people who can not be bothered. Schadenfreude, a Love Account is an exhilarating, hilarious, and yes, maybe even heartfelt memoir proving that sometimes the truest loves play hard to get.