Join in a special Valentine’s Day event to celebrate the release of “Big Swiss” by Jen Beagin.
AUTHOR TALK DETAILS
February 14 @ 7:00 pm
Women & Children First
5233 North Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60640
773-769-9299
February 15 @ 6:00 pm
Watermark Books & Cafe
4701 E. Douglas Avenue
Wichita, KS 67218
316-682-1181
February 23 @ 6:00 pm
Chevalier’s Books
133 North Larchmont Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90004
323-465-1334
February 26 @ 2:00 pm
Nancy’s Artisanal Creamery
297 Tinker Street
Woodstock, New York 12498
845-684-5329
About the Author:
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.
About the Book:
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.
