Big Swiss, Jen Beagin
Big Swiss, Jen Beagin
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Big Swiss

Author: Jen Beagin

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Carlotta Brentan, Stephen Graybill, Joy Osmanski, Matt Pittenger

Unabridged: 11 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2023


Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT FAVORITE

Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, NBC News, Lit Hub, theSkimm, Condé Nast Traveler, Town & Country, and more!

“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.

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house 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.

One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, 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…

“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.

About Jen Beagin

Jen Beagin holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and is a recipient of a Whiting Award in fiction. Her first novel Pretend I’m Dead was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and Vacuum in the Dark was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. She is also the author of Big Swiss. She lives in Hudson, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 03, 2022

4.5 really, I'm being slightly stingy. This was everything I ever hope an Ottessa Moshfegh novel will be but never is. The strange, the grotesque, and the ridiculous are all here in spades, but it's all done with such a tongue-in-cheek approach and in such good humor that it's impossible not to love......more

Goodreads review by emma on February 19, 2025

my favorite genre is literary fiction about messed up women doing crazy sh*t [URL not allowed] this was one of the only books i packed for a very beach- and flight-heavy trip, meaning, you know, i could not spend all of my time reading it, ignoring my loved ones and skipping iti......more

Goodreads review by Meike on January 23, 2023

In the Ottessa Moshfegh tradition of severely messed-up female protagonists, Beagin gives us 45-year-old Greta, a former pharm tech with a recently broken engagement whose current job it is to transcribe the sessions of a sex coach - and we're not talking about a serious therapist here: Om is, as th......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on January 07, 2024

ew … I loved it......more

Goodreads review by Telen on November 11, 2024

This book had me laughing out loud so many times! It beautifully balances dark and sad moments while keeping the humor front and center, making it an absolute delight to listen to. The audiobook format was perfect for me, providing a memorable experience. Here’s a link to the sample and format: (......more


Quotes

"Rebecca Lowman captures Greta’s sardonic personality. Carlotta Brentan and Stephen Graybill skillfully deliver Flavia’s frank expressions and Om’s slightly pretentious demeanor. Scattered throughout are snippets of therapy sessions with other patients, who are superbly performed by Joy Osmanski and Matt Pittenger."