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Wells Without Water is an incendiary, poetic, horrifying, and, above all, deeply felt adventure through the lives and loves of the Lo. Cebo Campbell has written a literary horror novel with the heat and rhythm of a Black sermon and the surreal, myth-soaked atmosphere of Southern gothic at its most hallucinatory. Wells Without Water brings to light the magical roots of Nat Turner’s rebellion, the power of religion when put in the wrong hands, and the cosmic horror of slavery itself.
The debut novel by Cebo Campbell, longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, longlisted for the Mark Twain Award, nominated for Goodreads Choice award for fiction, and more, this novel is set in a world in which every white person in America mysteriously walks into water and disappears. A year later, Charlie Brunton meets his estranged biracial daughter, Sidney, who has been left to navigate the world without her white family. Together they embark on a cross-country journey through a transformed America, confronting grief, identity, and the question of what Blackness means in a world without whiteness.
Aspen Literary Prize
Goodreads Choice Fiction
Goodreads Choice Debut
Vulgar Genius Award
Mark Twain Prize
Audible Book of the Year
Applebook's best
Library Reads Pick
The Black List Best
Crooks Corner Prize
Amazon Best Seller
AAMBC Literary Award
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