![]() ![]() While An Abundance of Katherines certainly centers around lost love, Green’s inclusion of quirky secondary characters such as Hassan and Lindsey, a punk-turned-prom-queen Tennessee native, keep the story of Colin’s adventure light, endearing, and witty rather than moody and whiney. Despite some of the more extraordinary aspects of Colin’s character (a knack for anagramming and mastering multiple languages) readers will find his dialogue to be natural and his mission to recover from a broken heart believable. Green does not belabor Colin’s mathematical musings, but instead focuses on Colin’s determination to solve his romantic conundrum. In an effort to recover from the recent breakup, Colin, a former child prodigy, attempts to create a theorem that will explain why he has suffered multiple heartbreaks from the Katherines. Green writes a leisurely-paced and engrossing tale following Colin and his best friend, Hassan, as they reach an unexpected destination, a small town with a lot of personality, ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeking a therapeutic summer road trip Colin leaves his native Chicago, meanders south and contemplates how he could possibly have accumulated nineteen breakups all with girls named Katherine. After being dumped by his girlfriend Katherine, eighteen-year-old Colin Singleton decides it is time to hit the road. ![]()
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