"EXTREME"

A NOVEL BY JOAN GELFAND

Silicon Valley. High-Stakes. Serious Gamers.
Romantic Tension. It’s All in a Day’s Work.
New Release July 14th, 2020!

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FROM THE BOOK

“Hope rounds the last twenty mile an hour curve with the speedometer edging toward forty. Here is the beauty of living in the Bay Area: crowded as the freeway had been, she still knows places to hide. Eucalyptus shiver as she passes, the menthol perfume soothing her the way dry hay does. The scents are etched into her DNA. Wind. Air. Bay and acacia. Past and present roll up into a moment. Up here, time expands.” 

“Doug loves the uphill best. And he loves training alone. He passes the 10 mile mark. The six mile flat plateau gives his legs a chance to recover. After that, he’ll sail home. Call Hope. If he’s going to go back to work, if he’s going to give up his dream of being a rock star, he needs to find out where lightning is going to strike next.”
 

ENDORSEMENTS

“Joan Gelfand has written a winner! I could not put Extreme down. It is exciting and sexy with excellent character development. Plus, Gelfand clearly knows Silicon Valley very well. She nails it down to the shoes, shirts, and drinks. Don’t start reading this when you have something else you need to be doing anytime soon!”

Sara B. Hart, PhD, Silicon Valley management consultant, author of “The Upside of Downsizing: Getting to Enough” and former Executive Director of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

 

“With a poet’s sensibility and a novelist’s instinct for plot, Joan Gelfand has produced a whip-smart page-turner of a book, complete with startup fever, romantic intrigue, and a cast of sympathetic — and not so sympathetic — characters. Read Extreme and you’ll have a better sense of what really goes on in Silicon Valley, far better than TV shows like Silicon Valley could ever provide.”

Katie Hafner, Author, “Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet,” and NYT and WSJ Reporter

ABOUT JOAN GELFAND

JOAN GELFAND’s reviews, poetry and stories have won the Cervena Barva Fiction Award, The Chaffin Fiction Award, Red Room Authors award for reviewing and three Pushcart nominations. Her work has appeared in national and international publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rattle, PANK! Chicken Soup for the Soul, Prairie Schooner, Levure Litteraire, Voice and Verse and the Toronto Review.

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