- ARCs to relevant reviewers including Kirkus, Foreword, PW, NYT, ALA Booklist, Library Journal; available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss
- Blog tour with book giveaways
- Early blurbs from bestselling fiction authors including Kathleen Glasgow, Ned Vizzini, Jennifer Niven, Libby Scott, Rebecca Westcott, Gayle Forman, and Erin Stewart
- Book club outreach + reading guide
- Targeted marketing towards OCD, rehabilitation and mental illness interest
- Promotion at book fairs and trade shows including ALA annual, mid-winter ALA, TLA, NCTE, NCSS, and African Studies Association annual conferences
- Submission for relevant awards
- Social media promotion
- Simultaneous e-book release
- Crossover marketing with young adult
- Promotion through Catalyst Press’ annual #ReadingAfrica Week
- Promotion as North American debut, first in three book deal
Big-hearted, kaleidoscopic, and honest, The Enumerations explores the far-reaching legacies of mental illness and trauma, and the children left to pick up the pieces of their parents’ emotional lives.
Noah Groome counts to five. At seventeen, he can do more than that, but counting everything in fives—from the steps he takes to the minutes in the day—keeps his raging anxiety at bay. The voice in his head, which he calls The Dark, controls everything he does. And it’s getting worse.
His increasingly severe OCD impacts every member of Noah’s family: his mother Kate, desperate for comfort as her home life falls apart; his father Dominic, who retreats emotionally as old demons rise to the surface; his protective little sister Maddie, forced to be the happy child; and most of all Noah, a troubled teenager trying to protect his loved ones from himself.
Following a violent incident at school, Noah is sent to rehab in Cape Town, where he meets Juliet, a rebellious girl with a sex addiction who isn't afraid of the voice in Noah’s head. As bonds are made and long-held secrets are revealed, Noah is not the only one who will find healing.
