Jay McInerney's characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her married boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a family celebrating the holidays while mired in loss year after year, a couple whose experiments in sexuality cross every line imaginable, an actor visiting his wife in rehab, a doctor treating a variety of convicts and his own criminal past, and a young socialite who is called home to nurse her mother, as well as Russell and Corinne Calloway, who featured in Jay's novels Brightness Falls and The Good Life.