Sourdough

by Robin Sloan

It's like Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off - NPR

Lois Clary is a software engineer. She codes all day and collapses at night into her sofa, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the local takeaway from which she orders dinner every evening - that is, until the brothers are forced out of business. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their famous bread. She must keep it alive, feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Lois is no baker, but soon, not only is she eating her own homemade, but she's initiated into a fantastical and possibly fantastically sinister underground world: a secret market that aims to fuse home-cooked food with cutting-edge technology...

• ISBN10: 1786494116
• ISBN13: 9781786494115
• Publish Date: 6 September 2018 (first published 5 September 2017)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Atlantic Books
• Edition: Main
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

This was great. I wish it were longer and we got to see them connect again in Germany. But an otherwise engrossing slice of life story.

[jamiereadthis]

If you’re looking for robot arms that make bread and mutant enzymes that devour an island, this book is your jam! (Get it? Jam? Bread? No? I’m sorry.)

Fun enough, especially the part with the underground food cult on Alameda, but if you’re gonna do quirky, there’s got to be a strong point of view too, and this book missed the latter. The ending flopped, floundered, fizzled, etc. But mmm, bread! (And mmm, that book jacket.)