Fin can't stop counting. She's always heard a voice inside her head, ordering her to listen, but ever since she's moved to the Sunshine State and her parents split up, numbers thump like a metronome, rhythmically keeping things in control. When a new doctor introduces terms like clinical depression and OCD, and offers a prescription for medication, the chemical effects make Fin feel even more messed up. Until she meets a doodling, rule-bending skater who buzzes to his own beat--and who might just understand Fin's hunger to belong, and her struggle for total constant order.
"...a wise, keenly observed novel about creating the illusion of control during the most out-of-control time of life: high school. I don't have OCD, but I obsessively, compulsively read it from start to finish. Crissa-Jean Chappell is a captivating new voice in teen fiction."
--Megan McCafferty, author of Sloppy Firsts
"TOTAL CONSTANT ORDER gave me that sickening, gut-wrenching feeling of being in high school, being different, and trying desperately to feel less alone. I wish I'd had this book to read back then. It would have done the trick."
