Sourdough

A delightful, sweet, smart fantasy. Snappy first-person narration, clever but not pretentious. Surprisingly nerdy, in very good ways: Sloan truly gets nerdiness, the need to find and solve challenges. He also gets startups, and baking, and the search for meaning. He has a gift for absurdity. I was reminded of Carl Hiaasen a few times, but without the violence and with much, much more self-awareness, delicious tender thoughtful curiosity and discovery.

You will need to suspend disbelief. Not the singing, sentient sourdough—I’m totally ok with that—it’s the time management. How the protagonist manages a startup job and baking and everything else, that’s a bit of a stretch! But I was ok with that, too, in the satisfying end.