Sky Full of Elephants

First published 2024 · debut

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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.

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Cebo Campbell, United States.

Catalogue record

Simon & Schuster, 2024

Publisher
Simon & Schuster, 2024
ISBN
978-1-6680-3492-7 +2
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster, 2024
ISBNs
  • 978-1-6680-3492-7
  • 978-1-4205-2090-3
  • 978-1-6680-3494-1
Editions
  • Simon & Schuster, 2024 978-1-6680-3492-7
  • Simon & Schuster, 2024 978-1-6680-3494-1
  • Cengage Gale, 2025 978-1-4205-2090-3
Author
Campbell, Cebo
Statement
Sky Full of Elephants / Cebo Campbell.
Records
Open Library Wikidata

Subjects

  • United States
  • 2020s
  • Dystopian fiction

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026