The Beautiful Boy

By Samuel D McCoy

When Yasmina Al-Khatib leaves Gaza with a silver pendant, a green notebook, and a story she is not sure she believes, she follows whispers across borders and the Red Sea. Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, a boy called the Beautiful Boy is said to gather the children war has left behind.

Jamil is twelve years old, Somali and Tamil, sharp-tongued, long-haired, wildly confident-and impossible to ignore. Aboard the blue ship Never Land, he and the Tideborn have built what the adult world failed to give them: food, education, family, and a place where children can finally sleep without their shoes on.

But the sea remembers Jamil's losses, and the past is drawing closer. As Yasmina discovers the boy behind the legend, Jamil must decide whether survival will be shaped by vengeance-or by something far more difficult.

Told through the unforgettable voice of a Palestinian girl who refuses to let grief have the final word, The Beautiful Boy is a mythic seafaring novel about displaced children, found family, identity, mercy, and radical hope.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMJCQNF8
• ISBN13: 9798177811932
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"