The Good Life

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor, although in a diminished capacity; his wife Corrine has sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their twins.

Across town, Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is taking a sabbatical from making money, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife and angst-ridden teenage daughter.

Then, on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site. Wise, surprising, and ultimately heart-stoppingly redemptive, Jay McInerney captures lives caught between hope and despair, love and loss.