Title: Alpha dog
Description: Feeling humiliated after being dumped by both her boyfriend and the school's popular crowd at the end of her junior year in high school, Katie endures more embarrassing moments while taking a summer class at the University of Texas in Austin, and living away from home in an apartment with an overly hip roommate and a psychotic dog.
Subjects: Self-perception, Interpersonal relations, Roommates, Dogs, Fiction
Places: Austin (Tex.)