Unmaking Grace

300 review copies (150 prepub, 150 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others. Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss & Netgalley. 3-week, 15-blog blog tour with book giveaways. Goodreads and Library Thing giveaway. We will seek to host an author Q&A chat on Goodreads. Promotion at book fairs and trade shows. Promotion in the 2019 Reading Group Choices guide for book clubs. We will seek blurbs from Tayari Jones, Merle Collins, and Yvette Christianse. We will submit the book for relevant and applicable awards. In collaboration with the author, we will plan twitter chats, Facebook Live, a Caffeine.tv chat, guest blog posts, and outreach to book clubs. We will include a book club guide online and in the back of the book. Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email lists (in development) and social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts. Simultaneous e-book and print release.

Grace’s perfect life in Cape Town is undone when her childhood sweetheart unexpectedly reappears after disappearing during an anti-apartheid police riot a decade earlier.Family secrets run deep for Grace, a young girl growing up in Cape Town during the 1980s. Her family secrets spill over into adulthood, and threaten to ruin the respectable life she has built for herself. When an old childhood friend emerges after disappearing a decade earlier during a clash with apartheid riot police in the Cape Flats, where South Africa’s coloured community makes its home, Grace’s memories of her childhood come rushing back, and she is confronted, once again, with the loss that has shaped her. She has to face up to the truth or continue to live a lie—but the choice is not straightforward. Unmaking Grace is an intimate portrayal of violence, both personal and political, and its legacy on one person’s life. It meditates on the long shadow cast by personal trauma, showing the inter-generational imprint of violence and loss on people’s lives.