Having just been dumped by Katherine the Ninteenth, Colin finds himself on a road trip with his best friend, Hassan. Ending in Gutshot, TN, the two explore the gravesite of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, meet a girl named Lindsey, and Colin spends the summer trying to find a mathematical theorem of love and relationships.
What my description isn't capturing is both the realness of the characters and the humor of the storytelling. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green is full of weird facts and trivia, odd anagrams, and an entire appendix devoted to the mathematical functions described in the book. It is unspeakably nerdy, in the best kind of way. But what can I say? I have a soft spot for footnotes in novels.
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