 By night, he is a cocaine-using party-goer seeking to lose himself in the hedonism of the 1980s yuppie party scene, often going to a nightclub called "Heartbreak".His wife, Amanda, recently left him, and he copes with this by pretending nothing happened and telling no one that she is gone.The two had met in Kansas City; the narrator moves with her to New York City, where she begins a modeling career that quickly takes off.