She Measured the World in Blue: An Emotional and Aesthetic Scale

<p>In a world that never quite made sense in words seventeen-year-old Ayla Verne has always turned to color. Blue is her constant&mdash;her comfort her compass her way of translating the ache of growing up. With a rare form of synesthesia Ayla doesn&rsquo;t just see the world&mdash;she feels it tastes it hears it in hues. But when her carefully tinted world begins to fracture&mdash;with the sudden disappearance of her mother a shifting friendship and the haunting pull of a boy who seems to speak in shadows&mdash;Ayla must confront what lies beyond beauty: grief truth and the uncertain art of becoming.</p><p>Told in lyrical prose and vivid imagery She Measured the World in Blue is a coming-of-age story about the colors we carry the pain we paint over and the language of light that lives in us all.</p>