UVA Club of Tidewater: Book Club

All alumni, friends, and families are invited to join the UVA Club of Tidewater for our next book club with special guest, Bruce Holsinger, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at UVA. We will be discussing Professor Holsinger's novel, “The Displacements”. Light bites/appetizers and the first round of drinks (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) will be provided by the Club.

We welcome any suggestions for our next book club!

For more information, please contact Jen Winters (Col '92) at cal_wahoo@yahoo.com.

About the book:

"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." - Goodreads

About the author:

Bruce Holsinger specializes in the literature and culture of the medieval world, with additional interests in historical fiction, modern and contemporary theory, the history of the book, and premodern religious cultures. He is also a fiction writer - to read his official bio, please click here.