From the celebrated author of As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow comes The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue, a deeply moving, poignant young adult contemporary novel woven with subtle magical realism.

Seventeen-year-old Jihad Dabbagh belongs to a maternal lineage blessed with a heightened, magical perception of colors that shifts with their emotions. But following the sudden, tragic death of her mother, Jihad’s world turns into a permanent, suffocating shade of gray. Struggling with profound grief and a family that doesn’t understand her color loss, she is sent to finish her senior year at the elite, predominantly white Braxton Academy, where her name and hijab make her a target for isolation and Islamophobia.