An Abundance of Katherines Penguin Group
Recently graduated smart kid Colin Singleton has a little bit of a problem. He was just dumped by his 19th Katherine in a row, leaving him completely heart broken. When Colin was a child, he had potential to be a child prodigy, and was excited to be such. However, as he grew older, the chances of him becoming this grew pretty slim. At the time of his graduation, he is depressed because Katherine XIX has just dumped him, and he has no major accomplishments to date. His good, and only, friend Hassan convinces Colin to take a road trip with him in order to forget his problems and get over Katherine XIX. Their planned road trip stops short in a little town in Tennessee where Colin begins his Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability in an attempt to make something big of himself. His experiences in Gutshot, Tennessee prove to be both new and life-changing.
WARNING: Swearing abounds in this book. There's also a little scene in a graveyard involving two unclothed members of the opposite sex.
Personal opinion:
Honestly, I didn't love this book. I liked it, but didn't love it. The swearing was pretty distracting. Also, the occurrences seemed too fantastic for a real life, recently graduated student to experience. Not everyone is a boy genius, so it's hard to relate that way as well. It was funny, however, and had good points about maturing and growing into your own person instead of what you're "supposed" to be.
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