![]() ![]() 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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