One of the biggest literary hits of 2023.' - Times Union the story’s oddity is as beguiling as the voyeuristic itch it scratches.' - Wall Street Journal “Erotic cottagecore as only Jen Beagin can do it.” - Electric Lit “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 “Weird and horny and unfettered in all the best ways.” - The Millions, 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 Big Swiss is a comic novel, but it is one with a very tender core.” - Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 “Beagin writes with a zany, overflowing energy. “A fantastic, weird-as-hell, super funny novel.” - Bustle “ Big Swiss is a refreshingly anti-trauma-plot novel… The book is wry, fresh, and absorbing.” -Bindu Bansinath, The Cut the ride is too fun to stop.” - Anthony Breznican, Vanity Fair “Always interesting and frequently hilarious. “It's wild, it's hilarious, and it's so good.”- Cosmopolitan, Best Books of 2023 (So Far) both timely and ultimately transcendent.” - The Los Angeles Times

Beagin may sooner be hotter than a farm-to-table restaurant in a bougie upstate town, but her work will be around much longer. “One of the funniest books of the last few years. “A fantastic, weird-as-hell, super funny novel” ( Bustle), Big Swiss is both a love story and a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more-from an amazingly talented, singular voice in contemporary fiction. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship… While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. “One of the funniest books of the last few years” ( Los Angeles Times) about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist and her affair with one of the patients. “Wild…hilarious…so good.” - Cosmopolitan, Best Books of the Year * “A laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong.” - Oprah Daily * “Always interesting…too fun to stop.” - Vanity Fair

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