Books by Jen Beagin and Complete Book Reviews

Pretend I’m Dead
Pretend I’m Dead
Jen Beagin. Northwestern Univ./Triquarterly, $17.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-8101-3207-8
If Beagin’s debut novel feels voyeuristic, it’s due to its incisive realism and the protagonist’s fascination with the people around her. Mona spends her 20s cleaning other people’s houses and observing her clients intently. After a heartbreak...
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Vacuum in the Dark
Vacuum in the Dark
Jen Beagin. Scribner, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8214-3
Beagin’s sharp and superb novel finds Mona, from previous novel Pretend I’m Dead, now 26, living in Taos, N.Mex., having followed the dying wishes of her ex-boyfriend, a man she met at a needle exchange and called Mr. Disgusting. Mona cleans houses...
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Big Swiss
Big Swiss
Jen Beagin. Scribner, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-982153-08-3
Beagin (Vacuum in the Dark) delivers a delightfully off-kilter romantic comedy set in a Hudson Valley increasingly transformed by transplants from New York City. The protagonist, Greta, is in her 40s, living in a semi-derelict Dutch farmhouse in...
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