Kateria's Reviews > Sky Full of Elephants

Very interesting and ambitious premise that I have not encountered before and would like to see more authors tackle . I’m a black woman (who graduated from Howard 🦬🙌🏾) and this felt like more of a thought project for people not like me.

It started off so strong and gripping but sort of devolved for me. The middle section was such a significant change in pace and I was surprised by the magical realism/ sci-fi vibes. The plot slowed down substantially and the author laid the rhetoric about racism, white privilege, oppression, identity outside of race, and generational trauma on toooo thick for me.

I do appreciate the messaging. Work like this is very important to get another layer of insight on an experience I unfortunately live everyday.

Nonetheless the prose was beautiful and really made me ponder what the world would be like without white people - and the author described a reality different from what I would have pictured and that was very enlightening.