The Good Life - Jay McInerney

In this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires,
and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.

Clinging to
a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived
a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less
than miraculous. Several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East
Side's social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in
an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives
him pause. But 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, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see-through personal, social, and moral complexity-more
clearly into the heart of things.