Backslide: Author Nora Dahlia at GGP

Schedule

Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

6120 La Salle Ave 510-339-8210, Oakland, CA, United States, California 94611 | Oakland, CA

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Please join us on Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM as we welcome author Nora Dahlia for a discussion and signing of her new novel, Backslide.
We will be selling the book at the event, or you can order a copy at https://ggpbooks.com/book/9781668084137 or https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781668152294-backslide?bookstore=ggpbooks for the Libro.fm audiobook. We hope to see you there!
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The author of the “sexy, smart, and sweetly satisfying” (Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Pick-Up returns with a second chance romance perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Abby Jimenez! Exes are thrown together at their best friends’ wine country un-wedding and forced to reckon with their past...and lingering sparks.
Nellie Hurwitz doesn’t have a first love. She has a first hate: Noah-who-may-not-be-named. And she has refused to talk about what imploded their relationship since it ended abruptly near the end of high school.
For two decades, Nellie and Noah have managed to avoid seeing each other—but the gig is up when their respective best friends, Ben and Cara, plan an intimate vow renewal at a vineyard compound in Sonoma, California.
Nellie is determined to keep ancient history from ruining the trip Cara has worked so hard to plan—but dangerously close quarters bring up feelings both Nellie and Noah have carefully locked away for years. Even amidst the eye rolls, snipes and awkwardness of their forced proximity, the two can’t shake the heady attraction they’ve always shared.
Written in alternating timelines, teenage Nellie and Noah fall together and apart in 1990s New York, while, in the present day, they grapple with whether—despite the baggage of the past—there is still something real and unfinished brewing between them.
Ultimately, can they find a way to move forward? Or will they backslide and blow things up for good?
About the Author
Nora Dahlia is a lifestyle writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, among others. Nora is also a branded content expert, book doctor, ghostwriter, collaborator, and writing coach. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two kids. She is the author of Backslide and Pick-Up.
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