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Breezy, Sleazy, Cheesy

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

April 8, 2024 by jeverett15 1 Comment

Are women (novelists) okay? This is my second novel in a row, following Emma Cline’s The Guest, in which a female novelist seems to revel in writing a completely irredeemable female protagonist. If a man had written a woman so despicable, so gross, so selfish and stupid and cruel, I feel like cancellation wouldn’t even begin to cover it. People would be calling for jail time. The protagonist of Big Swiss is Greta Work, a 45-year-old woman who has just moved to smalltown Hudson, NY […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Jen Beagin

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