The Fiction Old and New book group will be discussing “The Displacements” by Bruce Holsinger, DB109018. 05/05/2023

Here is the NLS annotation:
The displacements DB 109018
Holsinger, Bruce W. Reading time 13 hours, 38 minutes.
Read by Austenne Grey. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress.

Subjects: Suspense Fiction

Description: “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 priv
Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein
(hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).

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