Sunnyvale
The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family
Chapter One
As a kid, I always felt lucky. I had a mother, a father, a brother,
a sister, four grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, two dogs, a
surly cat named Princess, and a brand-new house in a brand-new
world. Even the name of the town I lived in made me feel lucky:
Sunnyvale.
I loved the word Sunnyvale. It was different from the names of towns
around us-like San Jose and Palo Alto and San Francisco, which had a
dreamy, old Spanish romance about them. And it was not a name like
Silicon Valley, which Sunnyvale was right in the middle of, but
which always made me think of breasts and robots. The word Sunnyvale
had utopian flair. It suggested to me that I lived in a special
place-a world of sunshine and progress, of new gizmos and old fruit
trees, where life promised ... read full excerpt from Sunnyvale ebook
