![]() ![]() ![]() Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship… While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. ![]() ![]() The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. “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. “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 ![]()
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In 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's continent spanning novel Americanah introduced us to Ifemelu, the outspoken Nigerian blogger whose musings on everything from immigrant life in the diaspora to affirmative action and interracial relationships were captured on the fictional blog Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, I enjoyed the details of the tiny gifts Maria attempts to give the People, and the huge gifts they try to give her, and the adventure aspects. At the time I was aware of Lilliputians, but I had never read Gulliver's Travels. I first read this book as a ten year old. Can Maria save them? and can they, in turn, save her? ![]() ![]() However, Miss Brown discovers Maria's midnight adventures to the island, and plots with the Vicar to sell the People to circuses. At first she treats them like playthings, desperate to own them as she owns nothing else, but the Professor helps her to see them as people worthy of respect. One summer's day she takes a leaking punt out on the ornamental lake in the grounds of the house, and on an artificial island, in a Folly (the Mistress Masham's Repose of the title), she discovers a community of Lilliputians, the People. With a venal Vicar as her Guardian and a horrible governess, Maria lives in a corner of her practically ruined stately home, with only the cook, Mrs Noakes, and an absent minded Professor as her friends. ![]() One summer afternoon she discovers a population of Lilliputians living on an artificial island on her ornamental lake. 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International group shows include: Social Justice and the Right to be Human at the Athens School of Fine Art, Greece 2011 Art Stays 9 ,Slovenia 2009 International Women’s Biennale, Incheon, Korea and the Sofia Paper Biennial, Bulgaria.Ī two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, 2016 Joan Mitchell Center New Orleans Residency, 2016 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council In Process Residency, 2010 Gottlieb Foundation individual grant, Lambent Fellowship, Pollack Krasner Foundation among others. Recent solo exhibitions in the NYC area include Lambent Foundation, Dean Project, metaphor contemporary art, and Kentler International Drawing Space and at the Wake Forest University, North Carolina. Her varied work reflects on our stories - our devotions and desperations. 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