Author wrote this novel some ten year after the family home was sold. This novel was about growing up near the epicenter of the computer revolution called "Sunnyvale." Goodell self documents his family's rise and fall, self struggles with the isolation and emotions deriving from the family troubles. As such "Sunnyvale is an excellent memoir." (Michael Saunders, the Boston Globe).

"Sunnyvale" began on a sour note: Mrs. Goodell calls Jeff, Jerry and Jill to the living room and announces that she is divorcing their father. The book gave an impression that mom was bored of the father, she at one point said that she never got to experience her life. They always had arguments and she didn't want to continue to live the life she was having. As to dad he always wanted to stay together. He didn't want to make the same mistake his father and grandfather made. He wanted to be there for his kids. For most of the novel dad is expecting that the things are going to be normal again and he will be back with his family but it was t

In the end the father was still trying to make sense out of his life he was building things to fill the emptiness in his life. Author and his father built the chimney that according to author was a symbol of physical and emotional dedication.

oo late. The mom later on ends up remarrying but the dad stung by the divorce for rest of his life he took up two packs a day smoking habit and ends up backing out of the second marriage. The remainder of his life was a slow heart beat. He was a landscape contractor and he could do nothing but to sit passively and watch as everything he valued was taken over by the rapid development and computers. While mom went back to school and started taking classes in Computer Aided Design she ends up doing well for her self. "for a women without a college degree" (Goodell 86) writes Goodell, "it was a brave and remarkable move, she had gone from housewife to a cutting edge technologist in a few short years where else beside the silicon valley would a transformation like this have been possible?"(Goodell 88) The rest of the book is about how the family took this decision and how the fallout did occurred and how did kids turned out to be and what it all had to do with the Silicon Valley.

Sunnyvale is exactly the kind of awakening story that those who don't see the cost of rapid growing technology needs to read. In my opinion in this book he did not only express his personal emotion and written an absorbing account but also he has introduced a human element in the story that misses in a lot of these kind of novels.

Goodell dropped out of college and started working at the Apple

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Approximate Word count = 1093
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)