"Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" author Sloan's latest work centers on software engineer Lois Clary, who gets to know the staff of a restaurant where she frequently gets food. When the restaurant closes, the brothers who run it give her the culture that they use to create bread. Lois's life begins to change with her ownership of the culture. "There's a dose of magic to his writing...," Schluep says. "This is life-affirming stuff."
