SKY FULL OF ELEPHANTS

288pp., paperback, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2024

ISBN: 9781668034934

A specualtive novel set in a world where white people no longer exist.

College professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged nineteen-year-old daughter Sidney and, meeting for the first time, they embark on a journey across a radically altered 'post-racial' America in search for answers.

"Part Afrofuturism, part delicious fever dream, a lost father and his fractured daughter set out on a road trip toward a misunderstood utopia that reveals the sacred wisdom of who they are and the significance of their people. Cebo Campbell is a master griot, reordering the world with grace, beauty, and deep humanity. Sky Full of Elephants is a thrilling, original work that allows us to look deeply at each other and ask if 'white ain’t an idea no more,' what are the unlimited possibilities for the idea of black?" Asale Angel-Ajani, author of A Country You Can Leave

"Replete with airline-less airports, sprawling mansions up for grabs, and an Alabaman monarchy, Sky Full of Elephants is a supremely imaginative exploration of family, loss, and the many roads to healing. Cebo Campbell gifts us a vivid odyssey full of possibility, proving that liberation doesn't reside in the rejection of history, but in our embrace of it. This is a debut that dares us to tap into frequencies of freedom, to view ourselves as what we truly are and always have been: beings full of light worthy of love." Mateo Askaripour author of Black Buck

Cebo Campbell is a writer and co-founder of the creative agency Spherical. Sky Full of Elephants is his debut novel. He lives in New York.