Okay, it wasn't a great book, but I was all set to be happy enough to have read it till I reached the last sentence. The last half-sentence, to be precise. ";but just at the wrong moment I catch a glimpse of the night sky behind David, and I can see that there's nothing out there at all."

I'm baffled. Any clues? I get the whole family moment thing, we have many of those and they are well worth the trouble, but what was the nothing all about? Did David fall out the window, just as she thought she could be happy? It doesn't seem so, since the night sky is behind David. Is there no spark afterall? Is life destined to be an endless feeling of just nothingness, not caring, the spark didn't in fact start the battery? Is the nothingness supposed to be symbolic, a reference to something I missed?

What I took away from this last bit was maybe that it's just not that simple. It takes more than a single spark to sustain a battery, a marriage, or a family. And "just at the wrong moment"--- the moment when the spark could have caught, she lets her attention get turned away. With all the spiritual leanings in this book, I took it as a vague reference to "be here now." How easy it is to just acknowledge these moments rather than to fully live into them. It's much easier to look out the window, to look away.

I think this ending is open to many interpretations. I'd love to hear what others made of it.

I also read the last line a bunch of times. At first I totally thought he was going to fall out the window and that would be that. But maybe the nothingness out there has to do with a "grass is always greener" reference? Like she spends the whole book thinking she wants a divorce, she's lost her interests, she imagines this exciting life as a divorcee... but actually there's nothing better out there. She has her family here and now, and if she was to leave, it would just be new problems on her own.

I'm not sure... I thought the ending was a little off from the rest of the tone of the book, but yeah, I kind of felt like I missed something too. I totally loved the rest of it.