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Big Swiss

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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.

Editions (6)

ISBN9781982153083
PublisherScribner Book Company
Publication Date02/07/23
Pages336

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163 ratings

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  • lauma
    lauma

    144 Followers

    5.0

    CHARMANT CHAOTISCH

    Average queer experience i guess 🫡🤌

    CHARMANT CHAOTISCH

    May 22, 2025

  • tanja_wue
    tanja_wue

    204 Followers

    4.0

    Ein erfrischendes unterhaltsames Buch, das ich so in der Art noch nicht gelesen habe.

    Hier geht es um Greta, 45 Jahre alt und arbeitet als Schreibkraft für einen Sexcoach. Wir lesen hier Passagen die Greta transkribiert und niederschreibt, sowie ihre eigene Gedanken. Gefühlt aus dem off. Natürlich kommt es wie es will, sie erkennt die Stimmen des einen oder anderen Patienten. Mir hat die Geschichte gefallen, weil es einfach anders ist. Unterhaltsam und dennoch tiefgründig.

    Feb 29, 2024

  • portpass
    portpass

    34 Followers

    5.0

    kann grad nicht, muss alles von jen beagin lesen

    Jul 6, 2023

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deadsaraDec 28, 2025

Irgendwas hat das Buch… ich weiß noch nicht was, aber es hat etwas.

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