The Displacements: A Novel

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From a nationally bestselling author, an adrenaline-fueled story of a family whose world is upended and erased by an unprecedented, catastrophic hurricane - and who must confront the truths (and lies) of their lives before and after. Daphne Larsen-Hall had everything she could ever want: a loving and successful husband, three bright children, and the means to pursue her art full time. She thought nothing could dampen her charmed life in Coral Gables, Florida but that was before Luna--the unprecedented category six hurricane--made landfall and stripped all of it away. Suddenly, her home obliterated, her husband missing in the storm, and access to her finances brutally interrupted, Daphne and the kids join an unprecedented flood of evacuees-- not just from Florida, but across the American South. With hundreds of thousands displaced, their bus takes them to a shelter all the way in Oklahoma. There, the life-changing revelations and losses keep on coming, and mother and children find themselves in a newly precarious existence. Once members of a gated community, now indefinitely limited to a single tent among a large, vulnerable population, their lives are transformed by those they come to know: an insurance agent-turned-drug dealer exploiting the weak, a community of migrant children separated from their parents, a FEMA relief worker dedicated to protecting the residents against threats from all sides. As days turn to weeks, tensions rise among all the IDPs--Internally Displaced Persons-- as they reckon with the changing environment, the fleeting government resources, and the clash of differing viewpoints from their fellow neighbors, culminating in irrevocable consequences. A suspenseful novel woven on a vast national tapestry, The Displacements explores privilege and its loss, and the nature of resilience in a swiftly changing world.