![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sharp class distinctions are ubiquitous in “dot.dead.” When Ian Michaels, a high-flying Jewish techie discovers a woman stabbed to death in his bed, his world unravels. “We didn’t have the sharp class distinctions that you see today.” “When I went to Palo Alto High, I went to high school with the children of custodians as well as the Hewlett children,” said Raffel. ![]() Raffel, who was born and raised in Palo Alto (and lives a block away from his childhood home), remembers a time when the area was called the “Valley of Heart’s Delight” and was chock-full of apricot orchids. While Raffel’s concern was largely facetious, the soul-crunching nature of working in Silicon Valley forms the crux of “dot.dead.” Much like the book’s protagonist, Raffel is comfortable in the Valley’s milieu, but he also has some perspective. I may work in the Valley, but I’ve never gone over to the Dark Side.” “I want to make clear that I am not a venture capitalist. “Whooo … wait a minute,” Raffel said from during a phone interview conducted in his car while driving home from Los Angles. Palo Alto author Keith Raffel admits there are some parallels between his own background and the protagonist of his book “dot.dead: A Silicon Valley Mystery.” However, when an overly ambitious reporter - perhaps inspired by the “whodunnit” nature of the Raffel’s mystery novel - pressed too hard to make a connection, Raffel snapped. ![]()
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