A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s 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 ...
A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s 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 she’s tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss’s 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 Swiss’s 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 Greta’s true identity, 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…
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.
Jen 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 I’m Dead was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 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...
Jen 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 I’m Dead was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 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.
So, Greta had taken another stab at therapy. After hearing her whole story, which had taken ten weeks to tell, the shrink diagnosed her with emotional detachment disorder, which seemed like a stretch to Greta, who preferred to think of it as “poise” on a bad day, “grace”on a good one, and, when she was feeling full of herself, “serenity.” (查看原文)
三天看完的，看到50%和80%都有点失去兴趣。女主又feral又歇斯底里，给人一种见到男人就形成性吸引的感觉，虽然肯定是为了讲故事讲了几个pivotal awakening moment，反正给人印象饥渴又歇斯底里。跟big swiss俩人结局会没想到会这么乐观(before the twist at the end)，因为我失去兴趣两次时候已经觉得俩人之间有lust但是跟性感或感性还是差挺多的。...三天看完的，看到50%和80%都有点失去兴趣。女主又feral又歇斯底里，给人一种见到男人就形成性吸引的感觉，虽然肯定是为了讲故事讲了几个pivotal awakening moment，反正给人印象饥渴又歇斯底里。跟big swiss俩人结局会没想到会这么乐观(before the twist at the end)，因为我失去兴趣两次时候已经觉得俩人之间有lust但是跟性感或感性还是差挺多的。有荒谬笑点但是因为太像hbo剧本了所以有时候还是太quirky（流行文化reference太多）太刻意感，放松不了所以不能真的笑。末尾时候讲的就是阶级差别不能overcome，到那里时候我觉得完全无聊了。。(展开)
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0 有用 P 2025-12-17 00:16:18 陕西
期待影视化。这书到底咋宣传的，这么侄女微双的剧情能打酷儿标签（）我不是说它不酷儿，但是很明显Greta和Stacy（男的，就叫Stacy）的情感线写得比那个初恋女友线细腻不知道多少倍，后者真的就是硬扯扯出来的，人物形象不太像活人。
10 有用 拉玛诞🌈 2023-03-28 17:48:11 江西
已知jodie comer会演迷人古板又有病的Big Swiss，很期待谁会来演这个messed up, morbid, eccentric, quirky的45岁的Greta！据说会是Aubrey Plaza！我先嗑为敬！
0 有用 碳水豚 2023-12-17 05:21:00 美国
I live live live for the drama
3 有用 shirasume 2023-06-24 22:10:12 辽宁
从看到Greta和Big Swiss干柴烈火之后就越发上头了。喜欢这种讨论女性之间关系的主题，有爱情、友情、亲情和成长。Greta活到现在的日子里一直在为童年的经历付出代价，无法疗愈，在遇到与自己如此不同的Big Swiss之后她才感觉真正的有了一些生存的意志。与Sabine的友情和她对Piñón的爱也很令人动容～
1 有用 oatsand 2023-04-03 07:18:11 加拿大
三天看完的，看到50%和80%都有点失去兴趣。女主又feral又歇斯底里，给人一种见到男人就形成性吸引的感觉，虽然肯定是为了讲故事讲了几个pivotal awakening moment，反正给人印象饥渴又歇斯底里。跟big swiss俩人结局会没想到会这么乐观(before the twist at the end)，因为我失去兴趣两次时候已经觉得俩人之间有lust但是跟性感或感性还是差挺多的。... 三天看完的，看到50%和80%都有点失去兴趣。女主又feral又歇斯底里，给人一种见到男人就形成性吸引的感觉，虽然肯定是为了讲故事讲了几个pivotal awakening moment，反正给人印象饥渴又歇斯底里。跟big swiss俩人结局会没想到会这么乐观(before the twist at the end)，因为我失去兴趣两次时候已经觉得俩人之间有lust但是跟性感或感性还是差挺多的。有荒谬笑点但是因为太像hbo剧本了所以有时候还是太quirky（流行文化reference太多）太刻意感，放松不了所以不能真的笑。末尾时候讲的就是阶级差别不能overcome，到那里时候我觉得完全无聊了。。 (展开)