Big Swiss (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 86 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Couldn’t put the book down
Best book I’ve read all year!
Nice surprise.
Laugh out loud funny.
Biggest literary disappointment of the year
Nothing wrong with this, I’m a supporter of the LGBTQ community. But wish the description of this book came with more of a warning label. The whole book is just them having sex or thinking about having sex with each other. I liked the writing and would’ve liked the book if it was about something other than these two woman having sex. In the description it says she’s obsessed with her, so I thought it was more of a stalker friend situation. It is extremely boring because it doesn’t really focus on her job or any of the other therapist’s clients. Just goes on and on about big Swiss. Also makes soo many racially inappropriate jokes, about Asians. And is also always hinting about the obsession the main character has with big Swiss, being Swiss, being blonde and pale. Very weird. Finished it, to fully give it a chance and get my moneys worth, but it was painful to finish.