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    Big Swiss: A Novel
    Big Swiss: A Novel
    Big Swiss: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    Big Swiss: A Novel

    Written by Jen Beagin

    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman, Carlotta Brentan, Stephen Graybill and

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    • Self-Discovery

    • Relationships

    • Power Dynamics

    • Transcription

    • Secrecy

    • Love Triangle

    • Forbidden Love

    • Opposites Attract

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Power of Nature

    • Secret Affair

    • Self-Discovery Through Relationships

    • Therapy Sessions

    • Friends to Lovers

    • Enemies to Lovers

    • Therapy

    • Trust

    • Friendship

    • Mental Health

    • Trust & Betrayal

    About this audiobook

    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.

    Editor's Note

    Weird and endearing…

    Greta, a transcriptionist for a sex coach, is beguiled by one client’s voice, nicknaming her “Big Swiss.” Then Greta meets Big Swiss in real life, and a passionate love affair begins. Only Beagin (“Vacuum in the Dark”), with her penchant for the off-color and eccentric, could pen a romantic comedy that’s as weird as it is endearing, addressing trauma while simultaneously making fun of New York elites.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2023
    ISBN9781797149288
    Author

    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.

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    Reviews for Big Swiss

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a mix of great and disappointing. Some readers enjoyed the tasteful descriptions, the funny and weird aspects, and the wonderful storytelling. However, others found it to be a pointless read, with a promising start that fell flat. Overall, it is an entertaining and strange book that offers something different for those looking for it.

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    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      If you enjoy anything by Ottessa Moshfegh, Alissa Nutting and possibly Dave Sedaris... this is your next fave. Bizarre, sad, funny and beautifully narrated.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      Amazing book ! Witty and romantic and very well written

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      I enjoyed listening to “Big Swiss”, but I’m left with one question. Would someone explain the meaning of e.e. cummings poem, “yes is a pleasant country”? Perhaps it expresses the relief experienced when decisive action is taken following a long period of simply existing.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5

      Dec 19, 2024

      I really enjoyed this one. I’ve read several reviews where people docked the book a couple of stars because they found the characters unlikable, but personally, I felt like that was the point? They portrayed two different sides of the same coin that kept drawing them together. Yin and yang. I found the story entertaining and witty and enjoyed the commentary on different ways of handling trauma.

    • 4/5

      Nov 23, 2024

      This was definitely an entertaining book! Lol I didn’t quite like how it ended but overall, it was enjoyable.
    • 4/5

      Jul 17, 2024

      The author has a way with words. The phrases used to keep the reader engaged is endearing. I felt myself smiling and/or laughing throughout the audiobook. Beautifully written, although I did not like the ending, I would recommend it to readers who enjoy witty dialogue.
    • 5/5

      Mar 11, 2024

      Really enjoyed this, really different, clever, funny, too. Not my usual genre.
    • 2/5

      Mar 5, 2024

      What a strange book with peculiar characters and an unreliable narrator.
    • 4/5

      Jan 3, 2024

      This had me hooked from the beginning! A great time!
    • 1/5

      Dec 22, 2023

      I didn’t finish it. I get dark humor and dark romance but there was a lot of talk of suicide at the beginning of the book. It should come with trigger warnings.
    • 5/5

      Dec 5, 2023

      Funny and weird and sad, with wildly drawn interior worlds. Great voice acting as well.
    • 3/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      Had a promise to be great, but fell flat. Disappointed
    • 4/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      Entertaining, but very strange. A fun read if you’re looking for something different.
    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      This book was hilarious and heartfelt without being corny. It was simply too odd to be. Highly recommend!
    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      I truly enjoyed this weird, wonderful book. The descriptions and details on every page kept me hooked.
    • 4/5

      Feb 27, 2024

      Really interesting and I liked the readers very much although big Swiss sounded too old. I truly felt as though I lived in the heart and mind of Greta’s life. This was hard sometimes. It was amazing how words were sculpted into experiences. Didn’t like the anal stuff.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5

      Dec 3, 2024

      There is just a vein of literary women that I do not connect with. I don't know completely how I feel about this book. It was extremely readable but I'm not sure that it actually tipped into enjoyable for me at any point. I feel like this is the kind of story I'd have enjoyed better as a film... I don't know.

      If I had more intelligent sentences in my head I'd comment on the lowkey scathing protrayal of the "my year of rest and relaxation"-esque girlies and parasocial relationships and victimhood but I don't. I will say these were the most intruiging parts of the book to me, and when those themes were in play is when I was closest to enjoying myself.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      Absurd. Women. Lesbians. Funny. Easy. Five words left to post.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      a heady yet absurd affair born of the nearly holy, certainly sacred, obsession only two women can conjure up within one another.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      I have never wanted to review a audiobook will listening to it for the 1st time.

      Ive love the storytelling and the Story….

      And I just and got to the farm. .. with Simon

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      ending was not what i expected but quite fitting and it felt like just as how it’s supposed to be without anticipation.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      Great story with tasteful descriptions of desire. I just finished so I still need to process, but I’m not sure how I feel about the ending. But i really enjoyed the story up to that point. Maybe I’m just sad there isn’t more.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5

      Apr 20, 2024

      the whole story just went nowhere. very disappointed but easy read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      Started out with great promise. Leveled off and then wanders around until it just, stops. A novel about damaged people who can’t get out of their own way. Maybe I am not bright enough to get the point. For me, it was a pointless read.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5

      Nov 9, 2023

      Such a disappointment! Don’t waste your time. It had such grate potential to be great but fell so flat.

      1 person found this helpful