I’m currently reading one break up book ( Going Vintage by Lindsay Leavitt )
and listening to another in the car ( An Abundance of Katherines by John Green).
In Going Vintage, sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend is cheating on her with his cyber “wife”. As she looks through some of her grandmother’s things, she decides life was simpler in the past. She rebels against technology by following her grandmother’s list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
In An Abundance of Katherines, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy, Colin has been dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine. He sets off on a road trip with his hirsute and Lebanese best friend, to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Both are funny and poignant. Both make me think about what I was like as a teen. Both are worth reading.
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