Robotics programmer Lois Clary subsists on an unappetizing diet that includes frequent servings of Tetra Pak wrapped nutritional gel until she discovers the delicious, restorative comfort food sold at Clement Street Soup and Sourdough, a makeshift take-out enterprise operated by two immigrant brothers. San Francisco's technology and food cultures collide and collude in Sloan's latest novel, following Mr. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market-and a whole new world opens up. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. 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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