Book : Sourdough (with Bonus Story The Suitcase Clone) A...

-Titulo Original : Sourdough (with Bonus Story The Suitcase Clone): A Novel

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Picador

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About the Author Robin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet. He is the author of Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough. From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, “a perfect parable for our times” (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker.Includes the new story The Suitcase CloneNamed a best book of the year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern LivingLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. 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. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But 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 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. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves to the General Dexterity cafeteria every day. Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market and a whole new world opens up. Review Delicious fun . . . a novel as delectable as its namesake. Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post“A culinary delight . . . Sourdough is the story we all secretly dream about. Could we leave our mundane lives and take a leap of faith in the direction of our newfound passion? Sloan takes readers on a thought-provoking journey to answer that question and asks them to consider the irony that it takes a living concoction of yeast and microbes to force Lois to consider living her best life.” Lincee Ray, The Associated Press “[Sourdough] plunges through so much terrain: microbial nations, assimilation and tradition, embodied consciousness and the crisis of the tech industry, all without losing the light, sweet, ironic Sloanian voice familiar from Mr. Penumbra’s, a plot that makes the book a page-turner and a laugh-out-louder, with sweetness and romance and tartness and irony in perfect balance. What a great book, seriously.” Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Sloan’s prose is sharp, and his critiques of capitalism, Silicon Valley and foodie culture are finely cut. Everdeen Mason, The Washington Post “Fascinating . . . insightful . . . One of the more cogent novels this year on the fertile tensions that exist between culture and technology” Andy Newman, The AtlanticIf you’ve ever been confused about what’s artificial and what’s authentic can you really tell anymore? Sourdough is a book for you. Jeffery Gleaves, The Paris Review Daily“Sourdough rises like a good loaf . . . Beautiful . . . Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off . . . [Sourdough] knows as much about the strange extremes of food as Mr. Penumbra did about the dark latitudes of the book community. [Sloan’s] voice . . . fits so beautifully into the time and place and moment he is writing about.” Jason Sheehan, NPR Books “Baking, foodie culture, and a club made up of women named Lois all figure in this charming story about a coder slogging away at a trendy tech company. When friends give her some sourdough starter and she begins making her own bread, everything changes.” Entertainment WeeklyDelightful . . . equal measures techie and foodie fodder, a perfect parable for our times. -San Francisco MagazineAs he did in Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan will have readers looking for magic in the mundane. -Nora Horvath, Real SimpleFilled with crisp humor and weird but endearing characters . . . At once a parody of startup culture and a fo