Throughout the novel Colin feels as though there is a hole in his stomach, and he is looking to fill it. After only dating Katherines, Colin breaks the streak by dating Lindsey Lee Wells, whom he met on his road trip with Hassan. Because of this, it is difficult for people to relate to him. Colin finds everything interesting, especially things that other people seem not to care much about. Though he was a child-prodigy with an IQ of over 200, he has not yet become a "genius". Main characters Colin Singleton Colin Singleton is an anagram-loving seventeen-year-old boy who is depressed. The story ends with the trio driving past the restaurant they were originally planning to go to, because Colin, Lindsey, and Hassan realize that they can just keep driving there is nothing stopping them from continuing on. Hassan says that he is applying for two college classes, which Colin has been trying to convince him to do throughout the book. Despite this, Colin is content with not "mattering". Colin realizes that his theorem cannot predict the future of a relationship it can only shed light on why a relationship failed. Lindsey slips a note under his door, four days later, stating that she cannot be his girlfriend because she is in love with Hassan.
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The graph reveals that they will only last for four more days. As their relationship continues, Colin decides to use his theorem to determine whether he and Lindsey will last. They discuss what it means to them to "matter" and eventually confess their love for each other. Lindsey tells him how she does not feel sad but instead slightly relieved by Lyford's affair. Dinzanfar, who is buried in the tomb.Ĭolin finds Lindsey at her secret hideout in a cave, where he tells her the story of every Katherine he has ever loved. Injured in the fight, Colin anagrams the Archduke's name while in the graveyard to dull the pain, and realizes that it is actually Lindsey's great-grandfather, named Fred N. A fight between Lyford and all the surrounding acquaintances begins when Lindsey finds out that he has been cheating on her. Their relationship is cut short when Colin and Hassan catch Katrina having sex with Lyford while on a feral hog hunt with Lindsey, her friends and Lyford's father. While the back stories of Colin's life play out, Hassan finds a girlfriend, Katrina, a friend of Lindsey's. His theorem eventually works for all but one of his past relationships with a Katherine-which the novel explores.
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It determines the curve of any relationship based on several factors of the personalities of the two people in a relationship.
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Colin is still chasing his eureka moment, finally finding it in the theorem he created called the "Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability". 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.Ĭolin 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.
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There, they meet Lindsey Lee Wells and her mother Hollis, whose family runs a local textile mill. After reaching a rural Tennessee town called Gutshot, they visit the supposed resting place of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Colin goes, hoping to find his "eureka" moment. He hopes to become a genius by having a " eureka" moment.Īfter 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. After being dumped by his girlfriend, Katherine XIX, Colin is longing to feel whole, and longing to matter. Over the span of his life, Colin has dated nineteen girls named Katherine, all spelled in that manner. Colin Singleton, a child prodigy living in Chicago, fears he will not maintain his genius as an adult.