Kathy Ebel, a first-gen­er­a­tion Amer­i­can, was born in Man­hat­tan. Her blog, Father­land: There’s No Place Like Home, or How and Why a Nice Jew­ish Girl Asked Ger­many to Take Her Back, chron­i­cles her quest to have her Ger­man cit­i­zen­ship restored. Kathy con­sid­ers Brook­lyn her home­town and cur­rent­ly lives with her fam­i­ly in Los Ange­les. Clau­dia Sil­ver to the Res­cue (Houghton Mif­flin Har­court) is her first novel.