A hand with a finger pointing at a book typically represents the Bible. Hands holding a chain with a broken link symbolizes the death of a family member or, sometimes, the bonds of marriage, broken by death. The hand of God plucking a link of the chain represents God bringing a soul unto himself.
Debbie Rowe is known as the surrogate mother for two of pop star Michael Jackson's children.
But he kept writing, and every on Barry Hannah, Captain Maximus (Penguin, 1985) Barry Hannah is America's most sadly neglected literary author since John Fante, and that's a shame.