About this Event
Join Brothers & Books on Sunday, March 15th at 2pm for a discussion regarding Cebo Campbell's popular novel, A Sky Full of Elephants. This book has been flying off our shelves, so brothers you don't want to miss this one!
Brothers & Books is a member-led book and discussion group for men of color of all ages.
This book club is the ideal forum to exchange thoughts and perspectives, to deepen your sense of community, and to diversify the selection of books on your shelf.
Brothers & Books looks forward to building a strong community of men who can pour into each other, centered around books and discussions that build and inspire.
Food and beverages are welcome!
About A Sky Full of Elephants:
In this “bold and imaginative” (Tananarive Due) “truly powerful and riveting story” (Booklist) set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search of answers.
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 his time in Pr*son 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, “this stunning allegory will spark much discussion” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) 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.
Purchase the book here.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kindred Thoughts Bookstore, 1001 Main Street, Bridgeport, United States
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