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An Abundance of Katherines

by John Green

A road trip, a pattern, and a theorem about love

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A road trip, a pattern, and a theorem about love

Colin Singleton has been dumped by nineteen girls named Katherine, and he responds by trying to turn that romantic pattern into a mathematical theorem. The project travels with him on a road trip alongside his best friend, giving the book a framework for pairing adolescent heartbreak with questions about identity, friendship, and whether relationships can be predicted. Anagrams and the historical death of an Austro-Hungarian archduke also figure in this comic novel, whose premise connects the urge to make sense of love with Colin’s effort to reinvent himself.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in comic fiction about relationships and friendship.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining a road trip with mathematics, wordplay, and history.

Themes

Romantic relationshipsFriendshipSelf-reinventionPatterns and prediction

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Book overview

From the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars

Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
New York Times Bestseller

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
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