Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel (Summary, Reviews & Purchase Options)

What if the world changed overnight—and you had to find yourself in what was left behind? In a world without whiteness, what does Blackness mean? That’s the question at the heart of this daring, unforgettable debut by Cebo Campbell. When a mysterious event causes every white person in America to vanish, Charlie Brunton—once wrongfully imprisoned, now a professor at Howard—finds himself face to face with the daughter he never met. Together, Charlie and Sidney travel across a radically transformed nation in search of understanding, family, and survival. But what they discover is far more complex than any imagined utopia. You are invited into a story that unflinchingly examines race, trauma, and healing—while reminding us that even in a reimagined world, the hardest truths still live inside us. This is speculative fiction with a beating heart and a vision you won’t forget.