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Robin Sloan: Sourdough (2017)

339 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-4328-4175-1
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OCLC Number:
1001364111

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"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"--!cProvided 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.

4 editions

Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Cooking (Sourdough)
  • Fiction
  • Sourdough bread

Places

  • San Francisco (Calif.)