The Displacements

★★★★★★★★★☆ 9/10

368 pages

What’s it about?

Daphne is an artist living with her surgeon husband and their two children, as well as her stepson, in an affluent part of Miami.  When Luna, a category six hurricane, hits, the family is separated, and all of Daphne's resources are inaccessible. The world as they knew it has changed in a few hours.

What did it make me think about?

Climate change

Should I read it?

What took me so long to read this one?  This was a really clever story about how climate change could affect anyone.   The story is unsettling, but it has great characters and a fast-moving story—lots to think about here. I suppose that if you read this book, you will be pondering it for quite some time.

A passage I marked

“It does unsettle me, all the attention DECO is getting from a certain set.  People are starting to come out here on yachts for canapés and cocktails at sunset, you know, Kip and Bunny sailing down the coast from Vero Beach to gawk at what we’ve been doing with the remains.” ***I had to laugh at this quote...