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Girl Dinner

A Novel

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Girl Dinner

By: Olivie Blake
Narrated by: Rita Amparita, Stephanie Németh-Parker
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"[Narrators Rita] Amparita and [Stephanie] Németh-Parker excel in providing distinct voices for the many female characters. Listeners will find themselves entranced by their performances. " — AudioFile

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly-fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . .

Good girls deserve a treat.


Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected.

After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey.

Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don’t fit right, her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is, and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.

As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

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This is a deserved introspection of what modern post Girl Boss Feminism has devolved into — I cannot even use the term without giving the story away, without spoiling the feast which lays in this rich and decadent tale. Yet, what Olivie Blake has done is marvelous, the crafted world built feels innocuous and unique, yet distinctly pedestrian. The intersections of these women’s lives are haunted with their observations of the other, and the boundaries they’re confined to…

Read this, listen to it earnestly. There’s a fervor that comes to life with each introduction to this prismatic experience of womanhood.

Starving and Yearning

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The title made it sound like it would be a girly fluff piece possibly about body dysmorphia. Instead it was insanely good and introspective. Very well written and well read. Very feminist. Very cool.

What hunting wives wishes it was

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The concept and core themes were spot on, capturing the challenges of motherhood, academia, and marriage with vivid accuracy. The portrayal of the sorority and power dynamics, however, was underwhelming. I felt a bit disappointed towards the end, but the story had a strong start.

Bleh

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I really loved this book. This is the first book by this author I've read I hope she has more.

Loved it

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The performance producer did not catch the many mispronunciations of words by the actress playing Nina. By hour 6 it became grating. She pronounced “mystic” as “mesquite” and Betty Friedan (Free-Dan) as Fra-deen”.

The story was also difficult for me. Interesting way to tell the story, from the perspective of two people at the same time in the same general space.

Not Delightful

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