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    Sky Full of Elephants
    Sky Full of Elephants
    Sky Full of Elephants
    Audiobook10 hours

    Sky Full of Elephants

    Written by Cebo Campbell

    Narrated by Leon Nixon, Erin Ruth Walker and Janina Edwards

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    About this audiobook

    “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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 10, 2024
    ISBN9781797182933
    Sky Full of Elephants
    Author

    Cebo Campbell

    Cebo Campbell is an author and creative director based in Brooklyn, New York. Winner of the Linda L. Ross Creative Writing Award and the Stories Award for Poetry, Cebo’s work has been featured in numerous publications. Cebo is the cofounder of the award-winning creative agency, Spherical, where he leads a team of creatives in shaping the best hotel brands in the world. Sky Full of Elephants is his debut novel.

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    • 4/5
      Lots of nuggets of information was fused into this book on Haiti and one discovering who they are
    • 5/5
      In a future world where all the white people walk into the sea and drown, black and brown people are left to find a new path forward. This is one of those books that I feel like you could dissect in a class for weeks and still not find all the deeper meanings. The prose lean into preachy often, but I was fascinated with the story. The complicated emotions, longing for "the way things were", fear of what they could be, assumptions about our own capabilities, and the reality of all Black people have suffered and continue to suffer made me yearn for community and healing in way I never have before. This feels like a paradigm to be investigated more than a story to be consumed. I'm giving it a 5 because I am compelled read it again
    • 3/5
      It was just OK if you know what I mean
    • 5/5
      Brilliant imagining and narrative on healing, possibility, and the formation of relationships
    • 5/5
      So beautiful it made me cry. Thank you for your words.