Soon she is filling a daily order for the chef, building a backyard oven to keep up with demand, and trying out for a spot at a local market.Īs her bread-making evolves, Lois still holds down her robotics job but she finds a way to make it all work and her sense of wellbeing starts to grow. However, curiosity prevails and she begins to produce rather splendid loaves that impress her colleagues and catch the attention of the chef at the office canteen. When visa problems force them to leave, their parting gift to Lois is an unusual sourdough starter, but she is initially reluctant to take on the responsibility of feeding it or making bread. She comes to rely on a local sandwich shop to keep her nourished late at night and strikes up a friendship with the two brothers who own it. It's the literary equivalent of an "a-ha'' moment and you just know you are going to enjoy yourself.Ĭomputer programmer Lois Clary is Sloan's protagonist and the story begins as she moves from Michigan to San Francisco to work for a robotics firm, one that demands long hours and total dedication, pushing a normal lifestyle out of reach. Readers may be familiar with the experience of getting a few pages into a book and realising you are in the presence of a wonderful mind - one that produces envy-inducing phrases and observations. Both the plot and the prose of Sourdough reflect his fierce intelligence, while never straying from an underlying warmth. Robin Sloan is a fresh voice whose originality is beguiling.
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