Questions for book club discussion

• Discussion about addiction, the reasons Tom needed painkillers, and the reasons his physical need became an addicition.

• Tom's reason for building his family a new home. What does the new house represent to Tom?

• What are the reasons for the disintegration of Tom and Ronnie's marriage.

• Mrs. Bongiovanni's belief that you have to play the hand God gives you. What does she mean?