An Abundance of Katherines

Road trip stories are always interesting ones, because they never really seem to end up being about the road trip themselves; they're more about the characters learning more about themselves and their relationships with each other, and this one isn't really any different in that regard.

That being said, it's a REALLY funny, really heartfelt story about Colin and Hassan, and this girl named Lindsay that they meet in the town of Gutshot, Tennessee. Colin's a child prodigy who fears he's, at 17, in danger of becoming washed-up, and who's been dumped by 19 girls named Katherine. He figures that the best way to overcome this washupedness is to develop a unified Katherine Theorem, which will be able to explain the course of any romantic relationship.

This book has ‘cult hit' written all over it. A lot of the humour requires a certain appreciation for math, footnotes, and language (including foreign language and anagramming), but if you have an interest in those things, and don't mind YA books, you just might love it.

If I could give this book seven stars, I fugging would.