What an odd, but entertaining book! I wasn't sure about it from the start when computer engineering tech terms were being tossed about but I focused less on those details and more on just the overall story. There is a dystopian aspect to the novel, but think more Willy Wonka than (hmm, I don't know, I don't read far-our dystopian novels!).
I really enjoyed the sourdough/bread baking aspect of the novel and found myself looking up where to buy a sourdough starter or how to make one from scratch and then I reined myself in from that craziness and instead found a bakery that I can buy a loaf of sourdough bread!
Summary from Goodreads: Lois Clary is a software engineer at 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 close up shop, and fast. 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 daily to her work cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, and a whole new world opens up: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people, exactly?
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