Sourdough by Robin Sloan

"Lois Clary, a software engineer at a San Francisco robotics company, codes all day and collapses at night. When her favourite sandwich shop closes up, the owners leave her with the starter for their mouthwatering sourdough bread. Lois becomes the unlikely hero tasked to care for it, bake with it and keep this needy colony of microorganisms alive. Soon she is baking loaves daily and taking them to the farmer's market, where an exclusive close-knit club runs the show. When Lois discovers another, more secret market, aiming to fuse food and technology, a whole other world opens up. But who are these people, exactly?" (Goodreads.com)

The unexpected journey that Lois goes on transforms her life and  it seems like a cautionary tale because you need hobbies and other outlets away from work to give balance to your life. At the beginning of the story Lois's job has taken over her life and even though she was once passionate about it, it drains her mentally and physically. The sourdough starter helps Lois branch out in ways she never even knew existed and do some soul searching along the way. This book was quick to read and made me laugh out loud while I was reading it. I also have the urge to learn how to make sourdough bread after finishing this book, however I would do it without a mysterious starter. I would recommend this to people who enjoy books about life changing journey involving food (aren't those the best ones?).

Kelsey Fitzgerald
Library Assistant

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