I’ve been covering the novels of John Green for a few weeks now, and this week I’ll be talking about his novel, An Abundance of Katherines.
This novel follows a “teen prodigy” named Colin Singleton; he is an 18 year old with a rather strange taste in women. He does not care about looks or personality, all he cares about is whether the girl’s name is spelled K-a-t-h-e-r-i-n-e. But he is not very lucky; he has been dumped by 19 different Katherines. The story starts just after he’s been dumped for the 19th time. It was graduation day, and he comes home feeling like a piece of him is missing.
His overweight Lebanese friend, Hassan, convinces him to go on a road trip and relax, and so they do.
Colin has been wanting to make the jump from prodigy to genius for quite some time, but in order to do so, he must have a “eureka” moment. He believes that prodigies learn quickly, but geniuses make discoveries. He didn’t know that his road trip would lead to the rural town of Gut Shot, and he would never have thought that the road trip would lead to the “eureka” moment he’s been longing for.
This is quite an interesting story, and I would recomend this to anyone above the age of 13 and looking for a fun story with some deep meaning to it.