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"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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Books written by professors at American universities usually are very boring but that is because they are usually nonfiction and they read like a textbook. This book is total fiction masquerading as a prophecy of what is to come.
Was this book about:
The worst hurricane to hit the United States sometime in the future?
Was it about societal breakdown in refugee camps?
Was it sleazy spouses who lie about everything?
Was it about the authors intense belief in climate change?
Was it about drug dealers praying on the weak at their most vulnerable time?
Was is about criminal behavior and how it will appear anytime people are vulnerable?
Was it about white privilege?
Was it about the plight of migrant farm workers?
Was it about our terribly inept government doing their best in a terrible situation?
Yep all of that and so much more. Plus it has annoying sidelines every 50 pages to explain what couldn’t be explained by the main characters of the book, think a report on the tragedy and it’s moving pieces and the aftermath.
This book was a mess. Way to many current agendas crammed into too short of a story, and yet it managed to be too long and too boring as it was.
Dangers of climate change- check.
White privilege- check.
Clueless rich white family- check.
Synthetic drugs/oxy addiction- check.
Racism against migrants from south of the border- check.
Strong black woman- check.
Southern white trash- check.
Throw in a preposterously idiotic resolutions to most of the story, and various storylines and you have this mess of a book.
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