從安逸舒適的海邊豪宅,流落到百里以外的大型收容所
在劇變之下,這家人即將面對最嚴苛的生存考驗
一段讓人腎上腺素上升的故事
看見在史無前例的災難後,平凡的人生如何被翻轉改變
在所有人的認知裡,Larsen-Hall一家可以說是人生中的大贏家:有健康可愛的孩子們、穩定美好的婚姻,男主人是個成功的外科醫生,這也讓女主人Daphne有餘力能去追尋自己的畫家夢,而且在邁阿密海岸擁有一棟美麗的房子。然而這一切天堂般的生活,都在超級颶風露娜襲捲而來後,破碎為泡影。
風雨摧殘後,Larsen-Hall家族頓時失去了兩名成員,經濟來源被斷,家中所有一切都被毀去。留下來的Daphne只好帶著女兒和難搞的繼子Gavin,加入流亡大隊,在聯邦政府緊急小組的安排下,安身在一個巨大的避難所。這個新的社區龍蛇混雜,有藥販、孩子軍、努力維持新社區和平的救濟工作者們。對Daphne而言的「正常生活」,究竟能不能再找回來呢?
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“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?
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.