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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:00 AM

In every dream home, a heartache

With its teen sex, meth habits and quarter-life crises, Janelle Brown's addictive Silicon Valley novel shows that in every boom, there's a bust.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Wednesday, May 28, 2008 01:33 PM

    weird puritanism

    Just noting that, once again, in this review (and perhaps the book) there is a sign of the weird Puritanism that I now associated with Dr. Phil. Teenage girls better not have sex! It is so degrading, and you will (they guarantee) end up on the bathroom wall. I can't figure it out, really, why this faux worry keeps cropping up. I think it is jealousy or something else completely personal. But it is interesting that the reviewer seems to have no problems with the (cue Halloween music) terrible consequences of female sexuality. Mha ha ha ha.

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