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The story of an obsessive love affair between a woman and an apartment

Set in the manic world of New York real estate, High Maintenance is the story of Liv Kellerman, a young woman who's just left her husband and, more important, their fabulous penthouse apartment with its Empire State Building view. On her own for the first time in her life, she relocates to a crumbling Greenwich Village hovel and contemplates her next move. Before long she finds her true calling: selling real estate. With her native eye for prime properties and an ability to lie with a straight face, Liv finds success and is soon swimming with the sharks-the hardcore, cutthroat brokers who will do anything to close a deal. Along the way she picks up a maniacally ardent architect who likes to bite her, a few hilarious bosses, strange and exasperating clients, and a gun, and brings them with her on her search for the one thing she's really after: a home.

Jennifer Belle's gift for creating strange and winning characters and her acute observations of both the absurd and the poignant in everyday life are the hallmarks of her fiction. High Maintenance is generous and unsparing, tough and exciting, and terrifically smart-a hot new property on the market.

Christine Lakin is an Earphones Award-winning narrator and acclaimed television actress, best known for her roles as Alicia Al Lambert on the hit family comedy Step by Step and as Joan of Arc on Showtime's Reefer Madness.

Jennifer Belle is the author of four critically acclaimed, widely translated novels, including Going Down, for which she was named best debut novelist of the year by Entertainment Weekly, and High Maintenance, a national bestseller. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Independent magazine, Ms., Harper's Bazaar, Black Book, and many anthologies. She lives in New York City.