synopsis of big swiss a novel jen beagin

―Emily Lessig from The Violet Fox Bookshop in Virginia Beach, VA | Buy from The Violet Fox It’s a close encounter with human damage and nothing is off limits. However funny and entertaining, though, know that Big Swiss is also an intimate and often disturbing portrait of mental illness, infidelity, and trauma.

I laughed out loud on every other page, rolled my eyes at the pervasive hipster things Big Swiss pokes fun at, and thoroughly enjoyed the quirky atmosphere. Honestly, it was unlike anything else I’ve ever read. It’s utterly shocking, absolutely hysterical, and beautifully cynical.

Big Swiss is the sort of strange and beautiful novel that you have to read to believe.

What booksellers are saying about Big Swiss I showed up with donuts, and then ate all the donuts.” ―Jen Beagin, Interview, Bloom They could clean three houses and still go to the gym and out to dinner. They appreciated the meditative aspects of cleaning.

They were always offering me fruit, and I was like, Get away from me with your disgusting bananas. The women I worked with ate apples for breakfast. I was also useless without sugar, caffeine, and nicotine. “ I’d never done manual labor before, and I remember my hands aching in the middle of the night.

Synopsis of big swiss a novel jen beagin