Furthermore, Lois’s bread came out of the oven with faces encrusted on the tops of the loaves.Īfter realizing that the starter caused her bread to be delicious, Lois began to share her food with other people, one of whom was Chef Kate, the chef at General Dexterity. For example, she noticed that the starter was singing, displaying fluorescent lights, and moving around by itself. As she became more familiar with the starter, Lois began to notice that it had some mystical characteristics. She developed a passion for baking and used it as a respite from the ennui of her daily life as a programmer. They taught her how to sustain the starter and how to make the sourdough bread before they left the country for the last time.īeoreg and Chaiman’s gift changed Lois’s life. However, before they left, they gave Lois the starter for their sourdough and told her that it was a tradition that she must keep alive. This is why she became distraught when they told her that they had to leave the country. Lois fell in love with the spicy food created by Beoreg and Chaiman, the enigmatic owners of the restaurant.

Lois needed some comfort, and she found it in the form of take-out food from a restaurant called Clement Street Soup and Sourdough. The company’s penchant for trying to distance itself from humanity’s flaws caused Lois to feel artificial and stressed. Lois Clary had just moved to San Francisco to begin working at General Dexterity, a programming company that specialized in the development of robot arms.

The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Sloan, Robin.

Sourdough by Robin Sloan