This is Where We Live, by Janelle Brown

Fantastic book. Starting with an earthquake in their $600,000 'starter home' in LA, this story of Claudia and Jeremy just got tighter and rockier. Aspiring filmmaker Claudia is on the rise- her first movie is about to be released, and Jeremy's band is doing well, recording, his 'job' at a friend's hipster t-shirt company pays well enough, and things are looking rosy. Even the news that his ex-girlfriend, genius/artist Aoki is coming to town for a gallery show can't rock their world- but then, the recession does. As surely and even more damaging than the earthquake, their gradual compromises and concessions shake apart everything that they assumed was solid, in what really was a wonderfully written post-real-estate collapse fiction.