An Abundance of Katherines
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Date: 2022-01-07

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An Abundance of Katherines is a young adult novel by John Green.
Released in 2006, it was a finalist for the Michael L. Printz Award.
The novel includes an appendix by Daniel Biss, a close friend of Green, that explains some of the more complex equations used by the main character, Colin Singleton.
Colin Singleton, a child prodigy living in Chicago, fears he will not maintain his genius as an adult.
Over the span of his life, Colin has dated nineteen girls named Katherine, all spelled in that manner.
After being dumped by his girlfriend, Katherine XIX, Colin is longing to feel whole, and longing to matter.
He hopes to become a genius by having a "eureka" moment.
After graduating from high school, and before college, Colin's best and only friend, Hassan Harbish, convinces him to go on a road trip to take his mind off the breakup.
Colin goes, hoping to find his "eureka" moment.
After reaching a rural Tennessee town called Gutshot, they visit the supposed resting place of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
There, they meet Lindsey Lee Wells and her mother Hollis, whose family runs a local textile mill.
Hollis allows Colin and Hassan to stay with her family and offers them a summer job interviewing the town's residents and assembling an oral history of Gutshot.
Colin begins to like Lindsey, though he is foiled by her boyfriend, Colin Lyford （he and Hassan call him TOC, "the other Colin"）, whose father is employed by Lindsey's mother, Hollis.
Colin is still chasing his eureka moment, finally finding it in the theorem he created called the "Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability".
It determines the curve of any relationship based on seve...