But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. When Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market, and a whole new world opens up. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, a perfect parable for our times. From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Book Synopsis From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she's providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. Read Sourdough A Novel by Robin Sloan available from Rakuten Kobo. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. 80 Listens Robin Sloan pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s robots and flavorless protein drinks in his second book, 'Sourdough.' It’s the perfect title for a book about various cultures in and around the Bay Area. She must keep it alive, they tell her - feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, a perfect parable for our times (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and. 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 neighbourhood 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.

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