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The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding on a Tuesday

by Kelsey B. Toney

A future in medicine, disrupted

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A future in medicine, disrupted

Delia Bridges has spent years working toward a medical career shaped by her own experience of severe, undiagnosed period pain. In her final semester of high school, an expulsion after she uses marijuana at school to manage that pain threatens the college plans and mentorship she has counted on. The novel brings together chronic pain, the difficulty of diagnosis, school discipline, and the question of how much of a young person’s identity is tied to achievement. Its period-positive framing places a rarely discussed health experience at the center of a coming-of-age story, while Delia’s ambition gives that experience a direct connection to the kind of doctor she hopes to become.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in coming-of-age fiction centered on school and future plans.
  • Readers seeking fiction that addresses period pain, endometriosis, and the challenges of diagnosis.
  • Readers interested in stories about ambition and setbacks in a young person’s path toward medicine.

Themes

Period pain and difficult diagnosisEndometriosisAcademic pressure and future plansIdentity and ambitionSchool discipline

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Delia Bridges is striving to become the compassionate doctor she's been unable to find in her journey to diagnose her excruciating period pain--but when a single rule-breaking incident jeopardizes her future, she must find a way to reclaim her dreams in this funny, period-positive novel.

A YALSA BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS BOOK OF THE YEAR


High school senior Delia Bridges has the most amazing mom and sister, a killer GPA--and periods that are so painful they make her scream, pass out, and throw up. Though she doesn't know it yet, Delia has endometriosis, an affliction plaguing millions of people that is notoriously difficult to diagnose.

Pain makes everything harder, but Delia is just one semester away from graduating from Stockwood Prep and pursuing her dream of becoming the kind of doctor she's never had: one who takes her symptoms seriously. But when she breaks a rule for the first time ever and is caught using marijuana at school to manage her pain, Delia is expelled.

Her expulsion jeopardizes her college acceptance, her planned mentorship, and everything she had carefully planned for years. Without her academic success and no closer to a diagnosis, is Delia anything more than her period?
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