Snyder captures the divided household's terrible sense of limbo and the helpless anguish and self-involved fury of a newly adolescent girl, allowing no ties to form until the post-bomb dust has settled to reveal whatever new landscape has been obscured by its cloud.
Because no matter how radioactive the Olympic stadium is, or how many east London families are forced to move to Stoke, the Olympics is about coming together as one to celebrate the fact we're not all choking to death in a terror-bomb dust cloud just yet.
Ever since Tom and Kirsty's wedding ended with a piercing shriek from the vestry ("Aaaargh!"), things have gone quiet in Ambridge, like the aftermath of a bomb when dust sifts softly down, muffling the sobbing.
The Merzbau was bombed to dust in 1943.
When these leaders proposed that the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary, they meant that they were unnecessary because Japan had already been bombed to dust.
Virginia Davis, wife of the logician Martin Davis, remembers writing "Stop the Bomb" in the dust on von Neumann's car.
Sergeant Nikas said the worker inadvertently set off the dye bomb, and pink dust filled the air.
As the review notes, I scrawled "Stop the Bomb" in the dust on the rear window of John von Neumann's black Cadillac.
It seemed to be too good a story - too fabulous, too interesting, too uplifting in this period of bombs, celebs and dust - to be really true.
It's been one of those weeks: The kind where the Syrian government bombs neighborhoods into dust, a hundred (or so) people die, and despite international condemnations, the black hole of the uprising just keeps swirling.
The cartels then used the fighter jets to bomb the wall to dust and make the drug pipeline from Mexico run about 7,000 times faster.
