Sourdough is the story we all secretly dream about. When friends give her some sourdough starter and she begins making her own bread, everything changes.” - Entertainment Weekly
“Baking, foodie culture, and a club made up of women named Lois all figure in this charming story about a coder slogging away at a trendy tech company. "Sloan’s prose is sharp, and his critiques of capitalism, Silicon Valley and foodie culture are finely cut." -Everdeen Mason, The Washington Post "If you’ve ever been confused about what’s artificial and what’s authentic-can you really tell anymore?- Sourdough is a book for you." -Jeffery Gleaves, The Paris Review Daily One of the more cogent novels this year on the fertile tensions that exist between culture and technology” -Andy Newman, The Atlantic a novel as delectable as its namesake." -Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post fits so beautifully into the time and place and moment he is writing about.” -Jason Sheehan, NPR Books Penumbra did about the dark latitudes of the book community. knows as much about the strange extremes of food as Mr. Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off. “Robin Sloan's delightful new novel, Sourdough… displays both lightness and a yearning for escape, but only in the best sense.” -Jeff Vandermeer, author of Borne, in LA Times Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market-and a whole new world opens up. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. She must keep it alive, they tell her-feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" ( San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker.
From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr.
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