Book : Big Swiss A Novel - Beagin, Jen

-Titulo Original : Big Swiss A Novel

-Fabricante :

Scribner

-Descripcion Original:

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she’s tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss’s refreshing attitude toward trauma. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice at the dog park. In a panic, she introduces herself with a fake name and they quickly become enmeshed. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Greta’s true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship… Bold, outlandish, and filled with irresistible characters, Big Swiss is both a love story and also a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more-from an amazingly talented, one-of-a-kind voice in contemporary fiction. Review An Amazon Best Book of February 2023: Delicious tension defines this bold, quirky love story which centers around Greta, a slightly unhinged transcriptionist for a self-styled sex therapist. As she listens to the sessions of an unnamed female client-whom she nicknames Big Swiss-Greta becomes increasingly consumed by thoughts of this stranger and her confidences. A chance meeting brings Greta and Big Swiss together, and their romantic entanglement grows heady-but there are some significant cards missing from the table, and keeping those secrets pulls at the threads keeping Greta from unraveling. Set in a Hudson Valley town rapidly filling with hipster-farmer wannabes, this voyeuristic dream of a read plays on the culture of pop psychology, our public and private personas, and the way we define ourselves in the aftermath of trauma. Smart, poignant, and darkly comic, Big Swiss is irresistible and unforgettable. -Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor Review “One of the funniest books of the last few years. . . . Beagin may sooner be hotter than a farm-to-table restaurant in a bougie upstate town, but her work will be around much longer. . . . both timely and ultimately transcendent.” -The Los Angeles Times “Its wild, its hilarious, and its so good.”-Cosmopolitan, Best Books of 2023 (So Far) “[Beagin’s] most exciting book yet . . . [an] idiosyncratic love story . . . wrenching and hilarious.”-New York Magazine “A fantastic, weird-as-hell, super funny novel.” -Bustle Beagin writes with a zany, overflowing energy. . . . Big Swiss is a comic novel, but it is one with a very tender core. -Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 “Beagin may have found the best vehicle yet for her nihilist whimsy.” -Entertainment Weekly, Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2023 Weird and horny and unfettered in all the best ways. -The Millions, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Beagin’s black comedy is a laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong. -Oprah Daily, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 “Erotic cottagecore as only Jen Beagin can do it.” -Electric Lit This funny, offbeat story asks questions about telling the truth, falling in love, and who we really are when no one else is looking-or so we think. -Town & Country This unconventional love story has a surplus of appeal from page one. -Publishers Weekly Beagin returns with another wonderfully off-kilter protagonist. . . . Big Swiss establishes her place among artfully eccentric writers l