The Good Life-Quality Guarantee

Description

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 toa semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have surviveda separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing lessthan miraculous. Several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper EastSide’s social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth inan attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often giveshim pause. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, andpeople worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastatedsite.

Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see–through personal, social, and moral complexity–moreclearly into the heart of things.