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An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Patrick's review
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
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The author of Printz winner Looking for Alaska spins another story about lost love which is — while more comedic and less tragic — no less moving. In an attempt to understand and/or outrun the albatrosses in his life, Colin Singleton takes a road trip after graduating from high school. He needs to leave behind the eighteen girlfriends (all named Katherine) who dumped him, and eighteen years as a prodigy crushed by people's expectations of him. Traveling with his best friend Hassan, they decide to swerve off their scheduled path to visit an unlikely tourist attraction (Duke Ferdinand of WWI fame's alleged grave site). This detour takes Colin away from his normal life and luck, landing him in Gutshot Tennessee, where he gets deeply involved with the lives and lore of the locals. Through it all, Colin's focus remains on the big picture: developing a scientific theory / mathematical formula (described, like the footnotes in the book, in tongue-in-cheek detail) to explain his failed rel...more
