Lenz kills the Nucks' dog (p. 581)
Bruce Green’s aunt with her center-parted hair visibly graying under the pillbox hat and face obscured for three Ohio months behind the black mesh veil that fluttered from the pillbox hat, clutching little Bruce’s head to her underwired bosom day after day until his blank face was smooshed in on one side….
Context
Green's Ohio backstory: after his mother's death-by-novelty-gag, the aunt who raised him went three months faceless behind black mesh. Grief-concealment rather than U.H.I.D. doctrine, but the veil does the same work — a face made unavailable exactly when the child needs it most. (Four-dot trail-off in the original.)