New Books In Literature

Bruce Holsinger’s novel The Displacements (Riverhead Books, 2022) is a gripping saga about what might happen in a world in which climate change can wreak havoc on life, even for those who have everything. Just before the world’s first category 6 hurricane hits the ground, Daphne, a proficient ceramicist whose pieces are selling for high prices, manages to get the kids packed and in the car. Her husband, a surgeon, is helping evacuate patients at the hospital and can’t be reached when the car runs out of gas, Daphne’s purse is missing, and they family is bussed hundreds of miles away to a FEMA mega shelter in Oklahoma. Knowing that their home is destroyed and there’s nothing to go home to, all they can do is struggle along with all the other evacuees, including the drug dealers and those who hate anyone who is different. No one knows what will happen next. Bruce Holsinger is a novelist and literary scholar based in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of the