![]() ![]() The company chef urges Lois to make the bread more widely available, but when she applies for a stand at one of the legendary Bay Area farmers markets, she is instead invited to join a new, secret market-literally underground-that aims to fuse food and technology. Soon she’s selling it to her employer’s cafeteria. The bread is irresistible, and it comes out of the oven with a face somehow imprinted in the crust of every loaf. Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it’s just a colony of quietly singing microorganisms. Lois must keep it alive, they tell her-feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. The brothers quickly close up shop, but they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter they use to bake their bread. ![]() Lois Clary is a software engineer who 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. ![]() Another “page-turner and a laugh-out-louder, with sweetness and romance and tartness and irony in perfect balance” (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing) from the author of Mr. ![]()
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