Excellent read! Read on the plane to Denver and then ended up missing the book club discussion. But my contribution would have been to discuss the character of Rose in conjunction with the idea that "the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference." 
 Favorite quotes: 
 "Pretty girls have it harder. People think it's the other way, that the ugly girls, the plain girls even, they're the ones to feel sorry for. But they don't have so many...distractions, I guess. There will always be people there to tell a pretty girl what she should be doing or thinking. At the counter, it's the pretty girls you can always sell the most to. They never know their minds." 
 "I had to wait until the thought of not telling you was worse than the thought of telling you." 
 "There was a loneliness in being answered, as if God and I had less to say to each other now." 
 "Sundays must have seemed endless to him, with no one to say his name." 
 "The love for a woman and the love for a child are not the same thing. With a woman, there's always the sense that they're loaning themselves to you. You have to remember that they can go at any time, and if a man's smart he never forgets that. He's just grateful for every minute she's there. But a child you come to expect. Their love is so much like breathing that it's a part of you, a leg, a lung." 
 "You just don't see Rose looking surprised. She never cared enough to look surprised about things."