Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel By Cebo Campbell

What does it mean to be Black in a world without white people?

“Bold and imaginative.” — Tananarive Due

Imagine waking up in a world where the racial order you have always known has disappeared. What happens to identity, power, community, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are?

In Cebo Campbell’s thought-provoking debut, all the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. One year later, Charlie Brunton, a Black professor at Howard University, receives an unexpected call from his estranged nineteen-year-old daughter, Sidney. Their journey across a transformed America becomes a search for answers neither is prepared to find.

But this is more than a journey between a father and daughter. It is an exploration of race, belonging, trauma, healing, and the complicated work of understanding ourselves and one another.