In her bedroom, wearing fingerless gloves and legwarmers and with spiders ‘large enough to jiggle a doorknob’ for company, Greta transcribes recordings of sessions for a ‘sex and relationship coach’ called Om (real name Bruce). A family of red squirrels ‘had been wintering in the attic for at least fifty-nine generations, and so it seemed cruel to evict them’. Set in twelve acres of land but ‘a one-cigarette drive from town’, the house has ‘layers of peeling wallpaper’, a huge functioning beehive and vermin galore. She lives with Piñon, her beloved Jack Russell, and her friend Sabine, a fifty-something weed dealer, in Sabine’s crumbling Dutch-style farmhouse. Greta has recently ended a decade-long engagement and moved to the small artsy city of Hudson, New York, a place, in her opinion, ‘where the deeply deranged go to die’. You might say she feels seen, were one of this novel’s many delights not a merciless skewering of therapese. Reviews 'One of the funniest books of the last few years. It’s like, yes, what happened to you is shitty … but why do you keep rolling around in your own shit?’ These words cast an unlikely spell on our heroine, Greta, a reclusive transcriptionist in her mid-forties. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (Hardcover, 2023) at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products. Big Swiss Book by Jen Beagin Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster About The Book Excerpt Reading Group Guide About The Author Product Details Related Articles Raves and Reviews Resources and Downloads Big Swiss LIST PRICE 27.00 Join our mailing list More books from this author: Jen Beagin You may also like: Fiction Staff Picks. ‘If you try suggesting that they let go of their suffering, their victimhood, they act retraumatized. ‘Trauma people are almost as unbearable to me as Trump people,’ says the title character of Jen Beagin’s ferociously entertaining black comedy Big Swiss.

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