By the end you'll be so in love you'll want to move to Hudson yourself, no matter how messy it gets.This interview has been edited and condensed.ĭo people in Hudson know you’re an author? Beagin channels everything evil, hot, intimate, and funny about spying on people while secretly hoping to get caught. 'I chugged this book! Pick it up because you like cheese, stay for the brilliant sentences. Come for the bees, stay for the donkeys!' - Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed Beagin's voice is an engine all its own, and I delighted in this cynical, sexy, hopeless, hopeful, Hudson Valley jubilee. ' 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. 'This funny, offbeat story asks questions about telling the truth, falling in love, and who we really are when no one else is looking-or so we think.' - Town & Country Big Swiss establishes her place among artfully eccentric writers like Nell Zink, Elif Batuman, and Jennifer Egan.' - Kirkus Reviews 'Beagin returns with another wonderfully off-kilter protagonist. 'This unconventional love story has a surplus of appeal from page one.' - Publishers Weekly Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she'll do anything to sustain the relationship.īold, 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. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Greta's true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. In a panic, she introduces herself with a fake name and they quickly become enmeshed. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss's voice at the dog park. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past.

Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss's refreshing attitude toward trauma. 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 spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist's transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions.

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