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Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

Sky Full of Elephants

A Novel

by Cebo Campbell
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  • Sep 10, 2024, 304 pages
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Charlie had class that morning, the fear of which might have catalyzed his sudden purifying change of heart. The day would result in his third teaching lesson ever. And he wasn't awful at educating. His students eagerly arrived to his classroom and departed energized. Moreover, he did believe his lessons were deeply important offerings to this new world. The problem was, a year ago, the only books he read came from the prison library. Indeed, in his mind, under his cardigan and argyle socks, down naked as a hound puppy, he still wore prison's uniform. Couldn't shake it. The result, one so oddly unexpected, came when he looked around bewildered at his big house and green lawn and forward to all those students desirous to absorb what he had to teach. Him. Of all the good folks still living. One day he withered away in a cell, and the next he waltzed into a world without white people. From prisoner to professor. Bewildered. Bewildered and bewildered.

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Excerpted from Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. Copyright © 2024 by Cebo Campbell. Excerpted by permission of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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