DOUG KARR'S DWELLING is an illustrated, character-driven crime novel, inspired by true events. A philandering artist tries to re-invent himself, turning his neighbors into subjects, but untangling a web of savage misdeeds in his Lower East Side tenement in the process.Dwelling's modern-day tenement is a pressure cooker where culture, class and capitalism collide, forcing the interconnected tenants to fight for their lives. The inhabitants are a vibrant menagerie of misfits, pulling back the curtain on the insidious side of gentrification and a landlord who will stop at nothing to flip his treasured Lower East Side apartments.Visionary blockchain artist Ophelia Fu created 60 original ink-on-paper artworks for the novel.