Big Swiss [Audiobook]

Description

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapists transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues.Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, 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, since shes tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta is fascinated by Big Swisss refreshing attitude toward trauma. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swisss voice at the dog park. In a panic, she introduces herself with a fake name and they quickly become enmeshed. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Gretas true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and shell do anything to sustain the relationship... Bold, 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.

en Beagin holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and is a recipient of a Whiting Award in fiction. Her first novel Pretend Im Dead was shortlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize and Vacuum in the Dark was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. She is also the author of Big Swiss. She lives in Hudson, New York. Carlotta Brentan is a voice talent and audiobook narrator. Rebecca Lowman is an actress and audiobook narrator who has won numerous Earphones Awards. She has starred in numerous television shows, including Law & Order, Big Love, NCIS, and Greys Anatomy, among many others. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. Stephen Graybill was recently in HBOs Big Little Lies, opposite Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon, and Nicole Kidman; in Framed, opposite Jordi Vilasuso; in the second season of Game Shakers; and opposite Denise Richards in the feature film Altitude. He has been seen in HBOs The Wire, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, Six Degrees, All My Children, As The World Turns, and The Girls Guide to Depravity. On stage hes appeared with Primary Stages, Drama Dept, NY Theater Workshop, F*It Club (world premieres by Kate Gersten, Mark Schultz, Lucy Boyle, and Nick Jones), Studio 42, Shakespeare Theatre DC, and Woodshed Collective in their acclaimed immersive theater production of The Tenant. He has worked on over fifty audiobooks, was awarded the Readers Choice Award of Narrator of the Year, and his narrations have fans saying hes even better than reading the story. He won a Gold Clio Award and a Silver Effie for his work in the award-winning commercial in Vaseline lotions Sea of Skin Campaign (BBH), and his work in promos has included Brian Williamss NBC Nightly News with Edward Snowden. Stephen has produced and written a number of films independently: LA Awake directed by Spencer Grammer and starring Natalie Dreyfuss, On The Hook, Spring Training, and Easter Island. Hes written a number of biopics, on topics ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to World War II. He has founded, developed, and financed the producer of a number of other projects as well. Joy Osmanski, theater, television, and film actress, is an award-winning audiobook narrator who has won three AudioFile Earphones Awards. She graduated from Principia College with a degree in creative writing and received her MFA from UC San Diego.

A fantastic, weird-as-hell, super funny novel. -- Bustle Big Swiss is a comic novel, but it is one with a very tender core. -- Vogue Beagins black comedy is a laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong. -- Oprah Daily Hilarious.-- Cosmopolitan This funny, offbeat story asks questions about telling the truth, falling in love, and who we really are. -- Town & Country This unconventional love story has a surplus of appeal from page one.-- Publishers Weekly