And then...?

Have you read The Piano Teacher? It's one of those books that is obviously created for women. You know, pretty woman, sad posture, romantic, tortured, all splayed on the cover. Anyway, while I can revel in the fact that I didn't purchase the book myself I cannot deny the fact that I was happy my Mother-in-law (I have a mother-in-law!) passed it forward. I find it funny and frightening that we have pretty much the same taste in books (except crime/mystery, I cannot abide by those).

So I read it. It's not a complicated book but there is still a vagueness to some of the story that drives me mad! MAD! I can't figure it out. Am I suppose to figure it out or is there supposed to be the question mark? Well, I don't like that. I'm not as bright as people like to think so I like my stories to resolve neatly. I mean, not like "the bad guy gets his due" or "they lived happily ever after" but more like "Oh, I know where everyone stands at the end". I think. Unless I'm contradicting myself then I don't know how else to explain.

Instead I get: Victor has Will drive up the hill and they exchange some cryptic sentences and then Victor, in a bit of a panic, says he's changed his mind. He doesn't have to go wherever it is they are going. Take me back home! And for some reason they never discuss it again and Will starts getting paid double for no reason. The End. What is this?! What does it mean! Where were they going? What was going to happen?

I'm embarrassed that I don't know. I am. But I'm shouting it across the rooftops in the hopes that someone out there will give me their thoughts. A book club moment if you will.