If you're of an age to remember diving under your classroom desk during nuclear-attack drills, you probably look back on that as ludicrous. We've seen enough movies to know that an atomic conflagration wouldn't be something we'd just dust ourselves off from, in time for recess.
In writing "Bomboozled," Ms. Roy says, she found that wealth allows the creation of "a very expensive security blanket."
"Even faced with apocalypse," she says, "hope springs eternal."
