Many thanks to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster Scribner Books for gifting me a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin - 3 stars.
Greta is in her 40s, single, living with a friend in an old farmhouse in Hudson, NY, full of bees, and working as a transcriber for a sex coach named Om. She becomes obsessed with one of his clients that she names Big Swiss because she's tall and originally from Switzerland. Like Greta, Big Swiss has been through a big trauma but she appears to handle it better than Greta is handling her past trauma. The two meet at a dog park when Greta recognizes her voice. Greta lies about her real name and the fact that she transcribed Big Swiss' therapy notes, but they soon begin an intense relationship.
This book is getting rave reviews so please read them! I obviously was not the target audience for this one, and while i liked parts - the epistolary way we read Greta's transcriptions, the descriptions of the farmhouse (complete with stink bugs that we get here in Upstate NY!) - I just didn't like any of the characters and struggled through the story.
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