Description

At last the story that definitively bridges the world of Sourdough to that of Mr Penumbras 24Hour Bookstore Its all one Penumbraverse

James Bascule is adrift College beckonsbut not quite strongly enough to actually get him to campus A trip to Europe showed him a world bigger than his Northern California upbringingand yet one broken heart later Northern California is where hes returned Back to his old bedroom paying his bemused parents rent with his new hobby baking bread with the sourdough starter that is his only souvenir of what was apparently just a summer fling

The future is being built an hour or two down the highwayits 1985 the twentyfirst century is just around the cornerbut thats not his world either While sitting in a Sonoma County bar indulging in a little aimless daydrinking with a junior college acquaintance he meets a man A man with something like a plan Has James ever heard of a suitcase clone Its a cutting of a vine used to clone and propagate noteworthy grapessay from a legendary European vineyard to an upstart Napa Valley operation This man has an operation He has a suitcase He just needs an enterprising young accomplice up for an adventure

Just how deliriously fun and thrillingly mindexpanding an adventure James cant yet know But we of course know how Robin Sloan crafts a story Crossing the international literarytechnoconspiracy of Mr Penumbra with the delicious experimentation of Sourdough The Suitcase Clone is a tale that enriches and expands the Penumbraverse in ways you never saw coming told by a mysterious narrator with an unexpected perspective on the great puzzles of life Who could it be

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar Straus and Giroux