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Jen Beagin

    Jen Beagin crea narrativas centradas en personajes que navegan por los márgenes de la sociedad, esforzándose por encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Su estilo distintivo es a la vez agudo y humorístico, adentrándose a menudo en los aspectos más oscuros de la vida con un ingenio inesperado. Sus obras exploran dinámicas interpersonales complejas y la búsqueda de autenticidad en una realidad ambigua. Beagin ofrece una perspectiva única sobre la condición humana a través de sus protagonistas poco convencionales.

    Vacuum in the Dark
    Big Swiss
    Pretend I'm Dead
    • Big Swiss

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      "Wild...hilarious...so good." --Cosmopolitan, Best Books of the Year * "A laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong." --Oprah Daily * "Always interesting...too fun to stop." --Vanity Fair "One of the funniest books of the last few years" (Los Angeles Times) about a sex therapist's transcriptionist and her affair with one of the patients. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house 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. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss's voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware

      Big Swiss2023
      3,7
    • Vacuum in the Dark

      • 240 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I'm Dead comes a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a kind novel, for fans of Sally Rooney and Joshua Ferris

      Vacuum in the Dark2020
      3,6
    • Mary Karr meets Miranda July in this hilarious debut about a young woman's quest for self-acceptance and belonging

      Pretend I'm Dead2018
      3,8