Dear John /

Dear John is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks, released in 2006. The story starts by explaining John Tyree's childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was raised with a single dad who suffers with Aspergers and has an extreme obsession with coins to the point where he spent every penny on them. His home was filthy and in shackles. He struggled to gain his father's attention and did reckless things to do so. His life had no direction until he went and joined the U.S. Armed forces. He struggles when he discovers that when he comes home, he falls in love with a girl named Savannah and has to decide between going back or being with her Dear John was adapted into a film in 2010 starring Channing Tatum as John Tyree and Amanda Seyfried as Savannah Curtis. The film was directed by Lasse Hallström and screenplay was written by Jamie Linden.