History Literature / AnAbundanceofKatherines

* BullyMagnet: Colin, particularly when he was younger.
* ChildProdigy: Colin
* ComingOfAgeStory

* DumbJock: TOC.

* FatAndProud: Hassan
* FatBestFriend: Hassan to Colin.

* [[GoodParents Good Parent]]: Hollis, Lindsey's mom.
* {{Goth}}: Lindsey, in eighth grade.

* ICallHimMisterHappy: Hassan. Thunderstick. That is all.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Sphincter.

* MametSpeak: Most notably in the cave scene.
* MookFaceTurn: JATT and SOCT.
* MouthfulOfPi: Colin.

* PluckyGirl: Lindsay.
* RoadTripPlot
* RomanticFalseLead: The Katherines, of course, for Colin. [[spoiler:And TOC for Lindsey.]]

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Colin, and to a lesser extent Hassan.
* SpoiledSweet: Lindsay Lee Wells.

* WhenSheSmiles: Lindsey. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis So. Very. Much.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Colin, who has an excellent memory and can make connections in everything he reads. Socially, he is so challenged that Hassan needs to tell him when he's boring other people. He obsesses over the name "Katherine" in general and K-19 in particular for much of the book, indicating that he has trouble adjusting to new situations.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted, obviously.

* NotSoDifferent : [[spoiler: Colin is shocked to find out that he is also a Dumper after he phones Katherine the Third to recall their brief relationship, who tells him that ''he dumped her''. Prior to the phone conversation, Colin had spent most of the book angsting over the fact that he was a Dumpee.]]

''An Abundance of Katherines'' is a young adult novel written by Creator/JohnGreen. It tells the story of Colin, a recent high school graduate whose girlfriend Katherine has just dumped him. This is made even more traumatic because Colin has dated no fewer than ''19'' girls named Katherine, all of whom dumped him [[spoiler: except for Katherine the Third]].

Colin's [[BlackBestFriend Middle-Eastern Best Friend]], Hassan, talks him into going on a road trip to take his mind off the pain of losing yet another Katherine. They end up in a small town known as Gutshot, Tennessee, and quickly find themselves at the home of a woman who runs a textile factory which manufactures tampon strings (which is the main source of income for the town). She has a daughter named Lindsey, who is smart and funny and has "a smile that could stop wars and cure cancer," but (1) Colin is definitely not interested and (2) Lindsey already has a boyfriend (named Colin) [[note]]Colin is fond of numbered lists in the middle of sentences[[/note]]. Colin and Hassan quickly become friends with Lindsey and start having all sorts of strange adventures.

* OddNameOut : [[spoiler: Out of all the girlfriends that Colin's ever had so far , Lindsey winds up being the only one (and the first) who is not called Katherine at the end of the book.]]

* HasAType: Colin for Kathrines.

* [[spoiler: NotSoDifferent : Colin is shocked to find out that he is also a Dumper after he phones Katherine the Third to recall their brief relationship, who tells him that ''he dumped her''. Prior to the phone conversation, Colin had spent most of the book angsting over the fact that he was a Dumpee.]]
* [[spoiler: OddNameOut : Out of all the girlfriends that Colin's ever had so far , Lindsey winds up being the only one (and the first) who is not called Katherine at the end of the book.]]