[How it Works](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/how-it-works/) [Bookshop](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/books/bindery/) [Publishing](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/publishing/) [Team](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/team/) [Contact](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/contact/) Log in or Sign up Girl Dinner Olivie Blake Save to Your Books [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/10458/9781250883476) [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQJ4BCVH?tag=thisstoryai04-20) 100% of affiliate revenue supports Boundless Press 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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Show more Get the Bindery app * * * Posts about this title from Boundless Press [Boundless Press\\ \\ Jananie\\ \\ • May 21](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/) [Why Do Readers HATE Satire Novels? The Origins of Satire & How It's REALLY Used in Fiction](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/item/CHPkHxowxMOHOnvsbmWz/) Hello everyone! By popular demand I have brought you the first in a series of video essays on various topics in the book community, literature, and art. Today, we are discussing satire novels and their literary tradition and how they are often misunderstood in our current day. 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This seemingly normal story soon becomes a horrific tale but at the core of it is the interrogation of girlhood, motherhood, and the expectations society puts on women.\\ \\ i love Olivie Blake’s writing and particularly her narration style—humorous, contemplative, and just the right amount of rambling tangents. this book felt like a release of the accumulating rage and powerlessness i’ve felt being a woman in the social media age, and in the _trad-wife/girlboss/fourth wave feminism_ age. i was so impressed by how artfully Blake portrays two sympathetic but also flawed characters in their own unreliable light that is then thrown in stark relief when we finally encounter each character from the other’s perspective.\\ \\ although i’ve seen this book marketed in some places as a dark academia, i do think it exists outside that distinction. yes, it is set primarily at a university and both main characters are teaching or attending said university, but it is not really about the institution of academia or the study of intellectual pursuits. It is instead, about existing in a period of youthful beauty that will later determine your future and also about recognizing the naiveté of that youth and the way society boxes women in.\\ \\ regardless of genre definitions—if the sound of cannibalism, sororities, motherhood, girlhood, and trad wives is at all interesting to you, then i think GIRL DINNER will be a great addition to your fall TBR.\\ \\ Goodreads \| Storygraph \| Bookshop\\ \\ * * *\\ \\ ****\[if you missed part 1\] what the heck are preorders and why is everyone yelling at you to preorder their book? \[the long version\]**** \\ \\ well, let me tell you. (as an ex-publishing employee, book influencer of eight years, and current indie publisher under Bindery Books.)\\ \\ the publishing industry banks on a few arbitrary metrics to understand whether a book is going to be “successful” or not. one of these metrics is the unfortunate _goodreads_ adds. the other is _preorders_. (i will not at this point get into how this is ultimately a popularity contest of how buzzy you can make your book sound because no one is actually preordering based on ACTUALLY READING your book, because it’s not OUT yet! i will get back to the importance of early reviews tho 😉)\\ \\ preorders are essentially what they sound like—you order a book _ahead_ of its release because you are invested in reading it once it’s out. think of it like kickstarter, but for books! the more people who preorder the book, the more confidence there is that the book will _sell_. and there is nothing publishing loves more than a surefire bestseller. high preorders also signals to the sales reps and retailers that there is a lot of interest in said book and this encourages sales reps to sell more aggressively, and retailers to buy more stock (what we call _sell-in_), which in turn, can contribute to further sales because more stock = more eyes on the book when browsing in stores. (we’ve all been convinced by a full table of the buzzy new book at some point in our lives)\\ \\ preorders also help books hit bestseller lists because the lists will count the number of copies sold during the first week PLUS all preorders _together_ to determine the official sales number for the first week. i.e. if you have high preorders, you can more easily hit a bestseller list on the first week.\\ \\ **now why are preorders important? and especially for marginalized writers?** well—if you’re an unknown debut author, and a BIPOC author to boot, you are probably working against all the biased forces of the industry and if you fail to scrounge up preorders you are even less likely to sell well. if you fail to sell well within the first six months of your book coming out, then stores are less likely to restock your books. and if your books fail to be restocked, then there’s no reason to print more copies, which will ultimately lead to your book simply going out of print and descending into the ether where most author careers go to die. (i am so sorry for triggering any authors reading this 😭)\\ \\ but there’s hope! early reviews by influencers and booksellers and industry professionals go a long way to convincing people to pick up a book based on the QUALITY of its CONTENT. but that only works if the people reading early actually POST their reviews and express their excitement.\\ \\ as a regular reader in the general public—especially one who wants to support marginalized authors—preordering books from authors you want to see more from is SO important to the longevity of their career and of the career of others LIKE them. if you don’t support BIPOC authors now, then when the next one wants to get published and can’t point to any previous successes before them, then they are going to run into a tougher time (it’s an unfortunate reality but it’s true).\\ \\ * * *\\ \\ aaaand if you’ve made it this far, then this is my attempt to get you to preorder the second book coming out from my imprint, Boundless Press — BURN THE SEA by Mona Tewari, which is the first in a fantasy duology following the life of one of India’s historical queens as she goes up against the colonizing snake monsters known as the Porcugi. 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