![]() ![]() Sourdough isn’t as treacle-y as that sounds, though. The starter takes Lois on a journey from a tech worker who subsists on nutrient slurry because it’s efficient to a foodie who can find wonder in seeing the stars. The soup is too complicated.)Īll of the generations of symbiotic bacteria and yeasts in this starter have grown into a rudimentary intelligence, one that responds to stimulus in almost human-like ways. One night, they tell her they are leaving the country, but before they go, they give her the means to make her own bread. After months in the software engineering pressure cooker, all that makes Lois feel human is the soup and bread they deliver to her door. ![]() The catalyst is a crock of sourdough starter given to her by two brothers, whose nomadic backgrounds cloak them in mystery. ![]() She’s just moved to town from a perfectly fine hometown in the Midwest, lured out to the coast by money and a tiny urge for change. In Robin Sloan’s Sourdough, Lois is a software engineer at one of San Francisco’s hottest tech companies. Sourdough, Robin Sloan ( MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux 978-0-8, $26.00, 272pp, hc) September 2017. ![]()
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