Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Erin Ruth Walker, Janina Edwards

In this “bold and imaginative” (Tananarive Due) “truly powerful and riveting story” (Booklist) set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search of answers.

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 his 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, “this stunning allegory will spark much discussion” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) 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.

Black is Truly Beautiful 😍

Powerful Read!! Oh if we could just see our BEAUTY and POWER as it should be.

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.

Magical

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

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.