"Robin Sloan's delightful new novel, Sourdough... displays both lightness and a yearning for escape, but only in the best sense." -Jeff Vandermeer, author of Borne, in LA Times

"Sourdough rises like a good loaf . . . Beautiful . . . Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off . . . [Sourdough] knows as much about the strange extremes of food as Mr. Penumbra did about the dark latitudes of the book community. [Sloan's] voice . . . fits so beautifully into the time and place and moment he is writing about." -Jason Sheehan, NPR Books

"Delicious fun . . . a novel as delectable as its namesake." -Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post

"Fascinating . . . insightful . . . One of the more cogent novels this year on the fertile tensions that exist between culture and technology" -Andy Newman, The Atlantic

"If you've ever been confused about what's artificial and what's authentic-can you really tell anymore?-Sourdough is a book for you." -Jeffery Gleaves, The Paris Review Daily

"Sloan's prose is sharp, and his critiques of capitalism, Silicon Valley and foodie culture are finely cut." -Everdeen Mason, The Washington Post

"Baking, foodie culture, and a club made up of women named Lois all figure in this charming story about a coder slogging away at a trendy tech company. When friends give her some sourdough starter and she begins making her own bread, everything changes." -Entertainment Weekly

"A culinary delight . . . Sourdough is the story we all secretly dream about. Could we leave our mundane lives and take a leap of faith in the direction of our newfound passion? Sloan takes readers on a thought-provoking journey to answer that question and asks them to consider the irony that it takes a living concoction of yeast and microbes to force Lois to consider living her best life." -Lincee Ray, The Associated Press

"[Sourdough] plunges through 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 Mr. Penumbra's, 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. What a great book, seriously." -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

"Delightful . . . equal measures techie and foodie fodder, a perfect parable for our times." -San Francisco Magazine

"As he did in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan will have readers looking for magic in the mundane." -Nora Horvath, Real Simple

"[Sourdough] fuses the story of worker alienation and embodied consciousness and microbiomes and microbiology with robotics in a beautiful way . . . A Robert Pirsig or Armisted Maupin kind of novel, but it's about robotic arms and sourdough bread!" -Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing on KDNK Radio

"On the crust, Sourdough is a buddy book . . . But slice a little deeper, and you will discover, Sourdough is a novel about work . . . Sloan's sense of place is palpable, and his prose is dusted with luxurious lines to be savored . . ." -David LaBounty, Dallas Morning News

"In his novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Sloan unraveled a mystery about a web designer who takes a job in a peculiar all-night Bay area book shop. New technology clashed, then melded, with classic history. Sourdough promises a similar sort of tech and analog mashup, in this case involving the food industry: a software engineer learns to bake bread and uncovers a secret underground market." -The Miami Herald

"Sloan has imagined a funny and curious novel unlike anything else, a perfect combination of self-discovery through all sorts of weird passions. Like truly good sourdough, this namesake is the perfectly tangy, chewy, and airy addition to anyone's reading list-minus the gluten and calories, of course." -Chika Gujarathi, BookPage

"Filled with crisp humor and weird but endearing characters . . . At once a parody of startup culture and a foodie romp . . . [A] delight, perfect for those who like a little magic with their meals." -Booklist (starred review)

"A wild, geeky, flour-dusted ride through the oddball food and techie communities of San Francisco . . . A winning story that-like its namesake bread-carries a satisfying tang." -Shelf Awareness

"How many novels can boast an obstreperous sourdough starter as a key character? A delightful and heartfelt read." -Library Journal

"Sloan's comic but smart tone never flags, and Lois is an easy hero to root for." -Kirkus Reviews

"Through narrative and email correspondence, Sloan captures contemporary work environments, current reality, and future trends . . . [Sourdough] offers much to savor." -Publishers Weekly