Summary

The Displacements begins in a suburb of Miami, Florida, where a woman named Daphne Larsen-Hall struggles to keep her various domestic responsibilities in order. Daphne is an accomplished sculptor who relocated to Miami because her husband, Brantley, received a position at a hospital in the area and suggested that their family relocate. Although Daphne loves her husband, her stepson Gavin, and her two children, Mia and Oliver, she also feels increasingly caged by her domestic situation in Pineapple Isles, the gated community that Brantley has insisted on moving into. To make matters worse, Gavin has returned home after dropping out of Stanford and has begun to adopt an increasingly surly attitude around the house. When Daphne asks Gavin to help her prepare for Oliver’s birthday party by picking up a cake and driving Mia home from school, Gavin agrees to do so...