(5) "Mr Jobs fathered her at 23, then denied paternity despite a DNA match * * * Ms Brennan-Jobs was born on May 17, 1978, on a commune farm in Oregon ['with the help of two midwives'; Lisa's memoir]. Her parents, who had met in high school in Cupertino, Calif., were both 23. Mr Jobs arrived days after the birth and helped name her, but refused to acknowledge that he was the father. To support her family, Ms Brennan [Lisa's mother] cleaned houses and used government assistance. Only after the government sued Mr Jobs did he agree to pay child support ['in 1980, the district attorney of San Mateo County, California, sued my father for child-support payments': Lisa's memoir]."
(6) "the region [now called Silicon Valley, where Lisa spent teenage years (high-school years) with Steve Jobs and his wife Laurene] had been green with eucalyptus and full of garage hackers. Now it is the greatest wealth-creation machine in the history of the world, and Mr Jobs remains its towering hero."
eucalyptus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus
(a genus; map with caption "Natural range")
Quote: "The generic [adjective for 'genus'] name is derived from the Greek words ευ (eu) 'well' and καλύπτω (kalýpto) 'to cover,' referring to the operculum on the calyx that initially conceals the flower.
(7) "Ms Brennan-Jobs began work on what would become 'Small Fry' not long after her father's 2011 death. Years into writing, she felt rushed by her publisher, Penguin Press, and feared being 'tarted up' and made to take advantage of her father's legacy. She wanted to be with a smaller publisher who would work with her and give her more time, and switched to Grove, taking what she says was a 90 percent cut in her advance."
tart up (vt; First Known Use 1938): "DRESS UP; FANCY UP <tarted up the restaurant>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tart%20up
(8) "across industries, formerly disempowered or ignored women are having their say about powerful men."
disempower (vt): "to deprive of power, authority, or influence : make weak, ineffectual, or unimportant"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disempower
(9) "In an interview, Ms Brennan-Jobs spoke of 'not wanting to alienate people' she loves, but acknowledged that her memoir might do just that. Aside from Mr Jobs, all the central characters are very much alive. 'I hope Thanksgiving's OK [when family gather],' she said."
(10) "Her [Lisa's] mentor there [high school], a journalism teacher named Esther Wojcicki"
(a) The Polish surname Wójcicki means "someone from a place called Wójcice in Sieradz voivodeship." Dictionary of American Family Names.
(b) Wójcice, Opole Voivodeship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wójcice,_Opole_Voivodeship
(a village of 860 (persons; presently); before 1945 the area was part of Germany)
(c) For pronunciation of the surname, see Susan Wojcicki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki
("daughter of Esther Wojcicki [the same one here in the book review], an educator of Russian-Jewish descent, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish American physics professor at Stanford University * * * [with a younger sister] Anne Wojcicki, founder of 23andMe [and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin [marriage 2007-2015])
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