Tami’s Reviews > The Casual Vacancy > Status Update

Contains one of the most concise and true descriptions of the shock of loss and mourning: Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there-the walls and the chairs and the children's pictures on the walls-meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and it's appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch...