The Displacements: A Novel

“Hypnotic.” – _New York Times_ “Cinematic.” – _USA Today_ "I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, _The Washington Post_ "A full-throttle page turner."– Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Paper Palace_ An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna—the world’s first category 6 hurricane—upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall, it triggers a descent of another sort. Their home destroyed, two of its members missing, and finances abruptly cut off, the family finds everything they assumed about their lives now up for grabs. Swept into a mass rush of evacuees from across the American South, they are transported hundreds of miles to a FEMA megashelter where their new community includes an insurance-agent-turned-drug dealer, a group of vulnerable children, and a dedicated relief worker trying to keep the peace. Will “normal” ever return? Asuspenseful read plotted on a vast national tapestry, _The Displacements _thrillingly explores what happens when privilege is lost and resilience is tested in a swiftly changing world.