Sky Full of Elephants
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Narrateur(s):
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Leon Nixon
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Erin Ruth Walker
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Janina Edwards
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Auteur(s):
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Cebo Campbell
À propos de cet audio
“This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A truly powerful and riveting story.” —Booklist
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 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, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is 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.©2024 Cebo Campbell (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Tali
- 2024-11-17
Thought-provoking and insightful
This was a really interesting and thought-provoking read. It’s a very high level concept posing the question of what being Black means in the absence of white supremacy and how would America change. I think the book answered the question of identity really well. Being Black no longer carries the same weight and fear so race doesn’t really matter, Black people can just be. I look at the journey of identity in the book as less of a discovery and more of a reclamation. When Black people were stolen, their history was taken from them too, and without the lens or structure of white supremacy, people are free to reclaim their true heritage and identities. That part of the book was beautifully depicted and unfolded really well. The book just didn’t hold up on world building and development. There were too many plot holes, too many unanswered questions, and it centralized America within the world without recognizing how white supremacist and capitalistic structures are a global affect that would still influence America even if all white people disappeared from it. As a concept, the book is brilliant and so ambitious. The execution has its flaws, but it is really worth a read.
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