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A novel that does what it sets out to do perfectly; but what that is isn't for everyone. An unnamed academic narrator (likely a Black woman or afab person--but deliberately ambiguous) chronicles their life's love affairs and how they interrupt/fuel their decade-long dissertation. This is all character study, with an amusing, unreliable narrator. For anyone with a background in humanities academia, THEORY is funny, strange, and thought-provoking.