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It’s a globe­trot­ting caper that carries us into the rarified world of wine, and not just any wine, but the kind made from grapes left to rot by design. The story is set between Cali­fornia and Europe, circa 1986. The Suitcase Cloneīundled with the latest MCD edition of Sourdough, you’ll find a short prequel. It knows as much about the strange extremes of food as Penumbra did about the dark latitudes of the book community. It is a beautiful, small, sweet, quiet book. Writing for NPR, Jason Sheehan said of Sourdough:

So much terrain: microbial nations, assim­i­la­tion and tradition, embodied conscious­ness and the crisis of the tech industry, all without losing the light, sweet, ironic Sloanian voice familiar from Penumbra, a plot that makes the book a page-turner and a laugh-out-louder, with sweetness and romance and tartness and irony in perfect balance. The great Cory Doctorow praised the book for covering

I believe it is the first novel in English to feature, as a key supporting character, a sentient sourdough starter. It’s about work and eating, robots and microbes, inde­pen­dence and ambition, This book is about Lois Clary, a talented young programmer from Michigan who follows a job to Cali­fornia, only to be drawn into the weird world of food that waits there. Sourdough Home About New: Sci-fi concept album Sourdough