The Displacements
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Hypnotic. New York Times
Cinematic. USA Today
"I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A full-throttle page turner." Miranda Cowley Heller, #1...
Cinematic. USA Today
"I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A full-throttle page turner." Miranda Cowley Heller, #1...
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Hypnotic. New York TimesCinematic. USA Today
"I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"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.
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1.Shortly after sunrise, a squall off the Gambian coast joins a rank of thunderheads crowning miles into the stratosphere. Dueling systems, two storms converging where the Canary Current dips to meet the North Atlantic Equatorial. A play of lightning and sheeting rain roils the ocean waters. Whitecaps foam the crests of waves.
Late the same morning, from the south and the scattered islands of the Bijagós archipelago, another storm edges in. Lower, more tempestuous in its churnings. The third system carries warmer waters beneath its front. The storms mingle and convect, a cycling dance of sea, sky, and rain.
Hundreds of miles to the south-southeast, the father-son crew of a fishing charter off Cape Verde help a banker from Lisbon struggle a blue marlin to the deck. Once the fish is stowed in ice below, the three clients arrange themselves along the gunwales, swilling coffee from foam cups while the craft rides the swells.
Without warning, a heavy gust sweeps the deck, wrenching cups into the sea, slamming one of the men against the superstructure. The other two clients share a good laugh at their companion's expense.
The captain and his son trade looks. A subtle wag of the father's beard. When you've fished the countercurrents for going on thirty years you know a thing when you smell it. The pressure rises in your bones and bends the invisible air. Even the son knows what this new sea means.
Another hour, two at most, then it's all out for São Vicente. The Lisboans will not be pleased.
The gathering storms fuse and collide. For hours the system remains loose, a disturbance in the Atlantic weather pattern.
Deep within a high cloud there is a shift in the convection flow and a modification in vertical temperature variation. The system organizes the warms, rallies the winds, until, as one, the three storms accelerate and spin.
A slow cyclonic spiral 108 nautical miles north of the equator. The
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rotation is counterclockwise. By 4:00 p.m. Gambian time, the satellites have captured enough data to effect a change in status. The system upgrades to a tropical depression, drawing more eyes to weather screens in the Caribbean islands, along the eastern seaboard of the Americas.
Five hours later, the depression has matured into a tropical storm. She spins and strengthens until she is hale enough to earn a name.
She is Luna.
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She spins and pedals and turns the clay mound until a cylinder rises in her hands. With four fingers in the mouth and a sponge on the shoulder she lightens the walls, creating form. The glaze will be an aquamarine, one of twelve shades Daphne and her Key West client have selected for the installation, a spectrum of blue-green hues inspired by the client's love of the Caribbean Sea. Six finished vessels already line a shelf and gather the sunlight brimming off the lagoon. Today Daphne has been working on the seventh, but each time she pulls, something goes wrong. Too much water, a flinch of the hand. Some unseen flaw in the clay.
She pinches along the neck ring so the mouth floats above the body, creating a slight pressure with only her pinkie engaged, to the edge of what the thickness can withstand. The wall thins, goes thinner still-
Too much, and the neck collapses into the base. She rams the sponge down through the upper walls until a shapeless lump sits on the bat. She pulls it off and slams it into the reclaim bin.
Cricket, alarmed, cranes up from her bed. "It's okay, girl." The beagle mutt lowers her patchy head, brown eyes moist with concern.
Daphne stretches on her stool and breathes in the earthy air of her studio, a high-ceilinged room flooded with light from windows on two sides, so different from the old converted garage back in Ann Arbor, where she belonged to a co-op and relied on a collective kiln. Here she
Five hours later, the depression has matured into a tropical storm. She spins and strengthens until she is hale enough to earn a name.
She is Luna.
2.
She spins and pedals and turns the clay mound until a cylinder rises in her hands. With four fingers in the mouth and a sponge on the shoulder she lightens the walls, creating form. The glaze will be an aquamarine, one of twelve shades Daphne and her Key West client have selected for the installation, a spectrum of blue-green hues inspired by the client's love of the Caribbean Sea. Six finished vessels already line a shelf and gather the sunlight brimming off the lagoon. Today Daphne has been working on the seventh, but each time she pulls, something goes wrong. Too much water, a flinch of the hand. Some unseen flaw in the clay.
She pinches along the neck ring so the mouth floats above the body, creating a slight pressure with only her pinkie engaged, to the edge of what the thickness can withstand. The wall thins, goes thinner still-
Too much, and the neck collapses into the base. She rams the sponge down through the upper walls until a shapeless lump sits on the bat. She pulls it off and slams it into the reclaim bin.
Cricket, alarmed, cranes up from her bed. "It's okay, girl." The beagle mutt lowers her patchy head, brown eyes moist with concern.
Daphne stretches on her stool and breathes in the earthy air of her studio, a high-ceilinged room flooded with light from windows on two sides, so different from the old converted garage back in Ann Arbor, where she belonged to a co-op and relied on a collective kiln. Here she
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Autoren-Porträt von Bruce Holsinger
Bruce Holsinger is the author of The Gifted School, which won the Colorado Book Award. He teaches at the University of Virginia and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bruce Holsinger
- 2023, 448 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Riverhead Books
- ISBN-10: 0593189728
- ISBN-13: 9780593189726
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.07.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for The Displacements: "Incredibly fast-paced and incredibly scary...I truly could not put it down...it's just one of those books that you'll pass along and recommend. Perfect for this time of year." Elisabeth Egan, New York Times Book Review Podcast
Holsinger has built an apocalyptic plot on ground more secure than the foundations of many Miami homes . . . Indeed, the disaster that The Displacements whips up isn t just powerful enough to smear Miami off the map; it s powerful enough to wipe away our naive confidence that such a disaster isn t coming for us. . . The Washington Post
"The novel s laser focus is on our present moment, and reading The Displacements is like bingeing a monthslong news cycle in six hours...a thorough translation to fiction of what it can feel like to live right now. It s hypnotic." New York Times Book Review
Holsinger makes us aware of how precarious our lives are in this world of drastic climate change. San Francisco Chronicle
In Bruce Holsinger s cinematic new novel readers are caught up in the epic sweep of hundreds of thousands of others who have also suffered the loss of homes, loved ones and finances The Displacements shines when it portrays alliances and factions amid the mass of people so suddenly brought together Holsinger delivers a nasty twist to the Larsen-Halls s story that inserts a well-placed jolt of suspense A book worth picking up. USA Today
Holsinger collects America s flaws and scant empathy in this breakneck novel [it] surely entertains, and it also hearkens to hope. Booklist, STARRED review
Brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly believable. Seems destined to be a blockbuster. Kirkus, STARRED review
[A] harrowing novel of environmental disaster This story of displacement and desperation packs a wallop. Publishers Weekly
"The perfect adrenaline-fueled late-summer
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escape." Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review
A riveting and humbling reminder of how precarious our lives are in comparison to the power of nature, and a profound glimpse into our near future. Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes
Realistic and immediate, it puts the reader right in the eye of the emotional storm, alongside its characters. As much as this is a wake-up call about the unpredictable nature of weather and life, it is most powerfully a propulsive family drama and a provocative story of human dignity, human indignity, and the deeper meanings of home. Miranda Cowley Heller, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Paper Palace
Bruce Holsinger has written a novel that succeeds in confronting the shocking realities of these times without being either apocalyptic or pessimistic. The Displacements is an urgent, powerful, unputdownable novel, filled with characters that are so vividly drawn that it is impossible not to care about them. A remarkable achievement. Amitav Ghosh, author of Sea of Poppies and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Tense, claustrophobic, and all too imaginable. A reminder that disaster doesn t only happen to other people, that in a heartbeat each of us can be put to the test in a desperate search for physical and emotional survival. Holsinger's beautifully drawn characters are made even more human by their relatable vulnerability in this gripping, twisty drama. Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House on the Street
Praise for The Gifted School:
"A page-turning meditation on what it means to be gifted and how far parents will go to prove it." NPR
"Holsinger s sharp observation, knack for dialogue, acerbic social commentary and droll descriptive gifts all add up to a heady brew. As the adults scheme intently and their beleaguered children act out their frustrations, The Gifted School becomes a sharp, skeptical primer on how things stand in 2010s America where everyone is desperate to get their slice of an ever-shrinking economic pie." The Boston Globe
"A surprisingly hopeful novel. There s a sweetness to its resolution, a satisfying possibility that no matter what monsters we parents are at times, we can still graduate to something better." Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Holsinger renders his helicopter moms and soccer dads so precisely that one understands their motivations, even feels their longing and pride. . . [The Gifted School] exposes how easily a mix of good intentions, self-delusions, and minor sins can escalate into the kind of skullduggery that might prompt an F.B.I. sting." The New Yorker
"Clever and au courant. . . top of the syllabus for book clubs." People
"Bright, and expertly observed." Town & Country
"Wise and addictive... The Gifted School is the juiciest novel I've read in ages... a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class. . . .The book goes down as easy as a gin and tonic on a summer day, but the takeaway is damning. In their quest to give their offspring the best, these parents have committed, as one member of the group realizes too late, 'a collective crime against childhood.." J. Courtney Sullivan in The New York Times
A riveting and humbling reminder of how precarious our lives are in comparison to the power of nature, and a profound glimpse into our near future. Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes
Realistic and immediate, it puts the reader right in the eye of the emotional storm, alongside its characters. As much as this is a wake-up call about the unpredictable nature of weather and life, it is most powerfully a propulsive family drama and a provocative story of human dignity, human indignity, and the deeper meanings of home. Miranda Cowley Heller, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Paper Palace
Bruce Holsinger has written a novel that succeeds in confronting the shocking realities of these times without being either apocalyptic or pessimistic. The Displacements is an urgent, powerful, unputdownable novel, filled with characters that are so vividly drawn that it is impossible not to care about them. A remarkable achievement. Amitav Ghosh, author of Sea of Poppies and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Tense, claustrophobic, and all too imaginable. A reminder that disaster doesn t only happen to other people, that in a heartbeat each of us can be put to the test in a desperate search for physical and emotional survival. Holsinger's beautifully drawn characters are made even more human by their relatable vulnerability in this gripping, twisty drama. Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House on the Street
Praise for The Gifted School:
"A page-turning meditation on what it means to be gifted and how far parents will go to prove it." NPR
"Holsinger s sharp observation, knack for dialogue, acerbic social commentary and droll descriptive gifts all add up to a heady brew. As the adults scheme intently and their beleaguered children act out their frustrations, The Gifted School becomes a sharp, skeptical primer on how things stand in 2010s America where everyone is desperate to get their slice of an ever-shrinking economic pie." The Boston Globe
"A surprisingly hopeful novel. There s a sweetness to its resolution, a satisfying possibility that no matter what monsters we parents are at times, we can still graduate to something better." Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Holsinger renders his helicopter moms and soccer dads so precisely that one understands their motivations, even feels their longing and pride. . . [The Gifted School] exposes how easily a mix of good intentions, self-delusions, and minor sins can escalate into the kind of skullduggery that might prompt an F.B.I. sting." The New Yorker
"Clever and au courant. . . top of the syllabus for book clubs." People
"Bright, and expertly observed." Town & Country
"Wise and addictive... The Gifted School is the juiciest novel I've read in ages... a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class. . . .The book goes down as easy as a gin and tonic on a summer day, but the takeaway is damning. In their quest to give their offspring the best, these parents have committed, as one member of the group realizes too late, 'a collective crime against childhood.." J. Courtney Sullivan in The New York Times
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