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Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

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Also by Jen Beagin:

Big Swiss, August 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Big Swiss, February 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Vacuum in the Dark, March 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Vacuum in the Dark, February 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Pretend I'm Dead, January 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)

Big Swiss
Jen Beagin

Scribner
February 2023
On Sale: February 7, 2023
Featuring: Greta; Sabine
336 pages
ISBN: 1982153083
EAN: 9781982153083
Kindle: B0B3Y8WL2L
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Paperback (August 2023)

Women's Fiction Contemporary

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.

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