>> i quote - often i quote leonard cohen, the songwriter and also the poet.eone asked him where his best songs come from, and he said if i knew i'd go there more often. i feel that way completely about everything i write. this novel and everything aside. i don't know really know where it comes from. i don't know - i just don't know. what i capn say is from the time i was four years old i knew i wanted to be a writer. it's the only thing i loved this much, this long. i said to myself when you turn 30, you need to know how you can do it. i saved up enough money to live for a year, and paid off student loans. year. >> the main character and birth father were surgeons in ghana, abandoned their wives and children. was this book cathartic in any way, a way to address your own feelings about your biological dad leaving when you were young? >> i think that - yes. the answer is yes, but perhaps not in the way i would have imagined. which is to say that writing this novel - i so completely inhabited the lives and the minds of all the characters, but, of course, the par

was a book that was given to her by randy commisar that was suggestive and a book of poems by leonard cohen called "the art of longing" or the name is wrong, but it has erotic images in it, but he testified that it was innocent, and they had a common interest in buddhism, and this is what the book is all about, and so there's a whole lot of it as we have been saying, he said/she said in the case. the judge, and let me just the judge is saying that everyone needs to be quiet, and respectful, and admonish iing t jury and the courtroom which has been packed throughout the culmination of the trial, and so searching for some decorum there as we await for the verdict to be read. >> thank you, scott. in the meantime, we will bring in the cnbc's correspondent, julia boorstin, and this is one that is captivating silicon valley, and the papa rrazzi is what they are calling the venture capitalist, and the venture world as it is called. >> yes, absolutely. it is bringing a lot of gender imbalance in silicon valley, and looking at twitter, and facebook, and google, and those are 70% female and 30% male,