To all appearances, Daphne Larsen-Hall has everything: a healthy family, a stable marriage, and the means to pursue her art full time. Her life in Miami has just started to click when Luna - the world's first Category 6 hurricane - strips her illusions away.
With the family home obliterated, her children's father missing, and access to their finances brutally severed, Daphne and her three kids join a rush of evacuees from across the American South. As millions confront displacement, Daphne and children are transported hundreds of miles to a FEMA mega-shelter, where the revelations mount. Joining a desperate and restless population of IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), the family faces tragedy even as their destinies fuse with the lives of their fellow residents: a ruthless opioid dealer exploiting the weak, a group of vulnerable children separated from their parents, a relief worker battling threats from all sides. As days turn to weeks, the displaced must find the resources and the will to enter the greater world again, pursuing a normalcy that may never return.
A suspenseful novel plotted on a vast national tapestry, The Displacements explores security and its loss, the power of art and the pull of home, and the nature of resilience in a swiftly changing world.
