Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions.
Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation, while taking on even more satisfying challenges, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer..
But who are these people, exactly?Leavened by the same infectious intelligence that made ROBIN Sloan’s Mr.
But then, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology.
The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up.
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.
Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria.
She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.
Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms.
But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the Sourdough starter used to bake their bread.
The brothers close up shop, and fast.
Then, disaster! Visa issues.
She 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.
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions
