She must keep it alive, they tell her-feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. 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 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. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Sloan must be a damn good author for me to have been so invested in a book about BREAD.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. It’s just an entertaining piece about bread because the author had an idea one day that they could build a whole story around something as mundane as yeast. I like to think that there truly isn’t any big, hidden importance to the story-that it’s just meant to be read as it is and not read too much into. To be honest, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve finished Sourdough, and I’m still not sure what the point of the story was.
I was convinced that the book had to have a greater significance than just being about sourdough to be rewarded a Goodreads title. The further I got into the story, the more intrigued I became and determined to uncover the deeper meaning of the book. There were multiple moments where I thought to myself, “Honestly, what the f*** am I reading?” The plot-line was a string of farcical events that had me laughing out loud like a weirdo in public (but definitely worth the unimpressed side glances), and the characters were lovable caricatures of people we all know in real life. The writing was cinematic and quirky, with the author delivering subtle, witty lines almost every other sentence. I think it’s best to go into this book with as little information about it as possible and to let it suck you in with it’s strange magic.
Your initial reaction to this statement might be to dismiss this book, and I get it- who wants to read a story about bread? Nonetheless, Sourdough won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, a point that prevented me from disregarding the novel and ultimately made me decide to give it a shot. The most basic and superficial description of this novel is that it is a book about baking bread.
How do I even begin to write a review for this book?
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