It’s like a reality built on fantasy but the foundations are wearing thin so you can see all the swirling and neon madness underneath. There’s immense violence and sadness, but so many off kilter details that make you feel like all of its real and nothing is real at the same time.

They probably hate each other, they probably hate parts of themselves that the other adores. Greta is obsessed with Big Swiss, Big Swiss is obsessed with Greta.

JBrilliant, acerbic, and vulnerable in its hilarity, this bonkers narrative is unlike anything I’ve ever read.

―Ndobe Foletia from Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, NC | Buy from Epilogue Books Greta is super flawed and unreliable but that’s what it makes her feel so human.

I knew this book was going to be for me when the blub said it was for fans of Killing Eve and it really didn’t disappoint! The feeling of slowly watching a train wreck happen was prevalent as Greta made the absolute worst decisions she could, but that’s what made this enjoyable.

―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.

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