One year after a cataclysmic event in which every white person in America walked into the water and vanished, Charlie Brunton is trying to rebuild. Once wrongfully imprisoned, now a professor at Howard University, he’s a Black man navigating a world transformed overnight.
Then comes a call from the daughter he’s never met. Nineteen-year-old Sidney, abandoned by her white family and traumatized into isolation, reaches out in desperation. Together, father and daughter set out across a fractured America—one redefining race, power, and identity in ways no one foresaw.
From the heart of Howard to the Kingdom of Alabama, their journey is one of healing, confrontation, and discovery. Cebo Campbell’s debut is at once allegory, road novel, and an unflinching exploration of what it means to be Black in America.
