Sky Full of Elephants

De: Cebo Campbell

Narrado por: Leon Nixon, Erin Ruth Walker, Janina Edwards

“Bold and imaginative.” —Tananarive Due
“This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A truly powerful and riveting story.” —Booklist

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.

Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.

Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.©2024 Cebo Campbell (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

Best book I’ve read in 5 years…

If you’re a human being, read this book. The situations and questions dealt with in this book are vital for all people to discuss and understand. This book is a gift.

A book everyone must read

Most interesting book I ever read!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾! There’s a message , hope you get it!! So powerful

Bravo!!

What a way to remind us that we will always be alright! We have what we need to survive. I loved this story! The character development 😮‍💨 I was sure I would not change how I felt about that girl…but my feelings evolved with her.

The plot of removing the whites from the equation fascinated me.

I felt he could have done a lot more on the black/white divide and come to some conclusion. But the story didn’t or I missed it.

This book is amazing

I just want to know who will build it ????? It was a dream come true 😂

A beautiful concept

I enjoyed listening to this book. I was throughly entertained by the descriptive and imaginative ideas. The various narrative for the multiple POVs brought the storyline to life. ❤️

A Celebration

This book is a celebration of possibility. The human spirit is boundless when given the humanizing conditions of love, beauty, genius, connection, and reverence. Cebo Campbell weaves the lessons of history, the worldly conditions of now with the hopes for tomorrow in a thought-provoking narrative. Excellent for intriguing book club discussions.

Love!!

I absolutely loved this book. Give it a chance and you may love it too.

Magical

I really loved how the book book focused on finding oneself outside of the white gaze and healing.

Eye opening

This book definitely opened my mind and showed me that all of my emotions are necessary to make the world heal. White is a mindset. Great book.