Sourdough

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Call Number: Fiction / Sloan, Robin, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Sloan, Robin
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Sloan, Robin	4-week checkout	Due 05-13-2024
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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Sloan, Robin	4-week checkout	Due 04-27-2024
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"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"-- Provided by publisher.
A software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions, Lois Clary 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. When the brothers have Visa issues, they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her-- and learn to bake with it. Soon Lois is providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria, then the farmer's market, and a whole new world opens up-- including a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology.

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Couldn't get myself to care submitted by bookher on June 28, 2018, 1:09pm I simply could not get myself to care about this SanFran hipster trying to make it in a futuristic world by creating a sour dough bread biz.

Sourdough by Robin Sloan submitted by chowmeyow on July 20, 2019, 7:34am If you’ve never read a book where one of the main characters is a sourdough bread starter, you’re missing out.

Robin Sloan’s first novel was the wonderfully quirky and fun Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. In his new novel, Sourdough, the scene changes from a mysterious bookstore to a mysterious food market, but his charming characters, unique writing voice, and delightful weirdness still shine.

Lois Clary is a young software engineer living in San Francisco. She works at a company called General Dexterity, which manufactures robotic arms that are rapidly becoming smart enough to replace humans in a variety of tasks and jobs. Her high pressure work environment dictates that she nearly live at the office. When she eventually arrives home exhausted each evening, she gets a deliciously spicy soup and sandwich combo delivered from a nearby takeout business owned by two brothers.

One evening, her usual delivery order arrives with a devastating surprise: the brother’s visas have expired and they are leaving the country, taking away her main source of happiness and substance. But before they leave, they present her with their sourdough bread culture: a starter that she is instructed to keep alive through a strict care-taking regimen that includes daily feeding and exposure to specific music from the brother’s homeland.

The story that follows is a story of self-discovery, challenge, and the courage to remake oneself. It’s also filled with warmth, humor, and delightful quirkiness. You’ll find yourself wanting to bake bread, visit underground markets, and join a Lois Club.

Novels that feature food and cooking should be warm and satisfying, and Sourdough is filling and unique, just like its namesake.

slow and weird submitted by boncheng on July 20, 2020, 8:38pm as a sourdough baker, i thought i'd be pulled into this book. sadly, it was weird at best, and not even weird in a good way. the details about baking were infuriatingly off and the plot was so slow. i forced myself to get through the first half and then couldn't do it anymore.