Gender Theory

<p>You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ella.<br><br>Ella's with you at the party when you first kiss a girl. <br><br>And Ella takes you to the hospital the first time you're diagnosed.<br><br> Over the next few years you have a string of relationships and jobs, but you can always count on Ella to be there for you - until the drinking and the parties, the hospital visits and late-night calls, blur the lines of your friendship into something unbalanced and fragile, at risk of breaking altogether.<br><br>The worst part is you can see it coming. The worst part is you don't know how to stop.<br><br><b><i>Gender Theory</i> is the dizzying debut from Madeline Docherty, an incisive, affecting novel about illness, finding your place, and how we care for those around us.</b></p>