In every dream home, a heartache

Remember the boom? The seemingly endless sunny days, the IPOs, the stock options, the insatiable appetites for stuff -- food and drugs and money and exposed pipes and stainless steel kitchens? Remember all that hope and greed and youth and bright shining possibility?

Novelist Janelle Brown, a journalist who toiled at California's new media Disney World throughout the 1990s, has made boom-y… » Full Story on Salon.com