![]() ![]() It’s more interesting than it sounds, honest. But, as a going away present, they give Lois a sample of their own sourdough starter, at which point she starts learning how to bake her own delicious bread. She soon finds (and falls in love with) a hole-in-the-wall takeout restaurant with absolutely phenomenal bread– only for said restaurant to close up shop a few months later. It centers on Lois Clary, a robot-software programmer lured to San Francisco by a fancy-pants Silicon Valley startup. Labels aside, Sourdough is just plain fun. I … guess you could label it magical realism if you really had to? I wouldn’t even call it urban fantasy, on account of the lack of leather-pants-wearing vampires. ![]() ![]() Sourdough is a fun, fluffy novel, one that’s … technically a fantasy (at least that’s what it was classified under in my Overdrive app), but it’s pretty lacking in wizards or elves or what have you. That should honestly tell you whether or not you want to read this book or not.īut! Since that’d be a pretty short review, I’ll elaborate. Robin Sloan’s Sourdough, or, Lois and her Adventures in the Underground Market is what happens when Neil Gaiman binges a couple seasons of The Great British Baking Show. ![]() Book Review: Robin Sloan’s Sourdough, or, Lois and her Adventures in the Underground Market. ![]()
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