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. 978-0374203108.From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. PUBLICATION DETAILS: MCD, 9/ 5 / 17, 272 pp. Overall? Sourdough left me hungry for more.
Cheerful, sarcastic, and very spacey I finished this book despite quite a few major complaints mainly because of the lovely tone Sloan created. I love books about food and this one certainly made me want to trudge out to the alley behind my city apartment and build a woodfire oven.ģ. The sourdough! The namesake of this book was delightful. I was completely enamored by this group of women who found each other all over the world simply because they share a name. On the other hand, I want to point out some things I loved.ġ. Make it happen in four days.” While I doubt that is what happened, I can’t help but think the whole ending should have been scrapped for something a little more in line with the rest of the novel. Why, suddenly, did this pen pal and friend become a lover? It was random and read to me like an editor sat Sloan down and said “This book needs a love story. (Spoiler Alert) Since these things come in threes, I also must criticize the ending. The exception to this is the Marrow Market’s librarian, whom I found quite charming. I felt similarly about other characters like Lily, Chef Kate, and the starter-supplying brothers. I constantly wanted to know how Lois was feeling beyond happy, sad, hungry for sourdough, etc.-especially considering the tyrannical work environment she found herself in. The characters, too, were as flat as a dead batch of sourdough starter. The sourdough starter had a life of it’s own, which was cute, and the Marrow Market had a few quirky advances however, these things do not warrant a scifi distinguisher, in my opinion. The science fiction aspects of the plot were quite unsubstantial and, in fact, I would sooner call them paranormal.
Sadly, Sourdough fell short of my expectations. Food, some science fiction, Silicon Valley satire? Sounds so good, right? I was so excited about the premise of this book.
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