'This book is such a tonic, it should be available on prescription. All hail the genius of Jen Beagin.' The Bookseller, 'Book of the Month'
Greta liked knowing people's secrets. That wasn't a problem. Until she met Big Swiss.
Big
Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from
Switzerland. Greta can see her now: dressed top to toe in white, that
adorable gap between her two front teeth, her penetrating blue eyes.
She's a head-turner: including the heads of infants and dogs.
Well
that's how Greta imagines seeing her; they haven't actually ever met in
person. Nor has Greta actually ever been to Switzerland.
Greta
and Big Swiss are not in the same room, or even the same building. Greta
is miles away, sitting at a desk in her own house, wearing only
headphones, fingerless gloves, a kimono, and legwarmers, transcribing
this disembodied voice.
What Greta doesn't know is that she's
about to bump into Big Swiss in the local dog park. A new - and not
entirely honest - relationship is going to be born.
A relationship that will transform both of their lives. . .
'Big Swiss is
a dark party; a hilarious romp through new age pop psychology, romantic
obsession, sapphic acrobatics, dogs, and the desire to end it all . . . I delighted in this cynical, sexy, hopeless, hopeful, Hudson Valley jubilee. Come for the bees, stay for the donkeys!' MELISSA BRODER
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