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. This is the type of narrative that is difficult to pull off.
Even so, I was surprised by just how unhinged a read Big Swiss is: it is bizarre, gross, offensive, hysterical, and over-the-top. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Having already acquainted myself with Jen Beagin’s absurd realism and fucked up humor in Pretend I'm Dead, I knew what to expect from Big Swiss. 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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