Sourdough, or, Lois and her adventures in the underground market : a novel

ISBN: 9781250192752 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1250192757 (Paperback)
Physical Description: print 259 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Picador edition.
Publisher: New York : Picador, MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Copyright: c2017

Sloan, Robin 1979- (author.).

Summary: 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.