Sourdough - Robin Sloan

Lois Clary, a software engineer at a San Francisco robotics company, codes all day and collapses at night. When her favourite sandwich shop closes up, the owners leave her with the starter for their mouthwatering sourdough bread.

Lois becomes the unlikely hero tasked to care for it, bake with it and keep this needy colony of microorganisms alive.  Soon she is baking loaves daily and taking them to the farmer's market, where an exclusive close-knit club runs the show. 

When Lois discovers another, more secret market, aiming to fuse food and technology, a whole other world opens up. But who are these people, exactly? 

Paperback, 259 pages
Expected publication: January 4th 2018 by Atlantic Books
Fiction
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My thoughts:

I knew this one would be good cos it was a Robin Sloan book. To be fair, I have only read one by him, but I liked his style and he kept that. Page 1 showed me it was the same.

Lois is working, working and then working. That is her entire life. And then she orders soup and bread, and what a feast it is. Trust me, I really want to taste that soup and that bread now.

And then she gets a starter. And now I want one! My very own starter, I mean, how cool wouldn't that be to make, to keep on feeding, to have for my own bread. Though I can't say I know anyone who has ever made one.

Suddenly her life is bread. There is a market place of wonders and a tale told of the yeast starter's history.

It is just the way it is told. SO serious. SO funny. So remarkable. So magical. So normal. He is a great writer and I fall into this world and comes out of wanting a yeast starter of all things.

Conclusion

Great one

Cover

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