An Abundance of Katherines Chapter 16 Summary

  • Instead of crying or getting angry at the fact that he caught his girlfriend in the act with another guy, Hassan laughs, runs down the hill a bit more, and yells out to Katrina that he's breaking up with her. That's certainly one way to deal with it.
  • Colin can't believe Hassan is laughing about all this, but Hassan doesn't take much seriously. He thinks it's funny that his (now) ex is getting it on in a graveyard, right next to the grave of the Archduke.
  • Oh—and to top it all off, the guy Katrina is with is TOC.
  • Hassan and Colin confront TOC about his girlfriend, Lindsey, and TOC says he and Katrina were dating before and just wanted to get together again before they broke it off. So it doesn't count as cheating, TOC reckons.
  • Colin threatens to tell Lindsey what he saw, and TOC asks if they would want to know if a girlfriend cheated on them.
  • This questions gets to Colin, and he starts thinking about whether he'd want to know or not. While he's contemplating, Lindsey, SOCT, and JATT show up, and everyone checks in with each other.
  • Did anyone even shoot a hog? Nope, but JATT and SOTC got a squirrel.
  • It's time for a drink, and this time even Colin has a beer, though Hassan does not. Colin replays what he just saw over and over again.
  • He can't take it anymore. He takes out the mini recorder—which was on the whole time—and presses play for Lindsey; she can hear what TOC said for herself.
  • She tells TOC where he can stick it, and then he grabs her before she can walk away. Colin and JATT run to her rescue and tell TOC to back off, then Hassan joins in and they punch TOC when he doesn't cooperate.
  • In all the commotion, JATT gets knocked down, and SOCT says TOC is ridiculous for doing this to Lindsey.
  • Colin can't really fight so much as slap, but he tries anyway, and then he throws up.
  • TOC is ticked but doesn't really want to go near someone else's up-chuck. Colin faints and when he comes to, he sees Lindsey fixing up Hassan's wounds; to dull his own pain, he starts anagramming (naturally). Since he's on the Archduke's grave, he starts with that—he notices a coincidence but doesn't tell us what it is.