The Displacements

A Novel

By: Bruce Holsinger

Narrated by: Austenne Grey

“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, from the author of The Gifted School and the Oprah Book Club pick Culpability

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?

A suspenseful 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.

Compelling and timely tale of finding one’s humanity and resilience in the wake of natural disasters and societal inequities.

Well written, well performed. This book will (hopefully) get you thinking as it’s provocative without being preachy.

Very good!

A page turner with one plot flaw I could not overlook. Also the narrator was ok but not great. That being said, the book was very very good! Enjoy!!!

Core of story is good but…..

I liked the core of the story but struggled with the back and forth and the intermittent news stories weaved through. I didn’t care for the narrator

Great modern take on the big one

Excellent story of a modern catastrophe and how that could play out. Realistic! Great writing, characters and story flow.

listened to it straight through

it's definitely a good book, if a tad on the depressing side topic wise.