Big Swiss

Greta shares a drafty Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York, with her friend Sabine. Nobody has renovated or insulated it, and bees have moved in. For work she types up recordings of sessions led by a sex coach who goes by Om.

One of his newest clients draws her in: a married, buttoned-up woman Greta privately nicknames Big Swiss. Then Greta hears that same voice on a street in town, and the two women quickly become entangled in each other's days.

A secret sits at the center. Big Swiss has no idea Greta has already heard her most private confessions. With her, Greta feels more like herself than she has with anyone, and desire outweighs guilt. She will do almost anything to keep the affair alive.

The book is a contemporary love story told with a comic, offbeat sensibility. Infidelity, mental health and sexual stereotypes all come up along the way. The humor is strange, and it runs on a deception that keeps getting harder to hide.