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'Y oko and Yoko' excerpt from Pretend I'm Dead ( 2016).10 Smart, Hilarious Cleaning Tips from Vacuum in the Dark Novelist Jen Beagin. On Dogs and the Unique Hell of Writing Novels. 2019: Vacuum in the Dark nominated to shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.2018: Pretend I’m Dead nominated to shortlist for the Center for Fiction’s 2018 First Novel Prize.Publishers Weekly Tip Sheet notes that 'This unconventional love story has a surplus of appeal from page one.' Critical reception Įntertainment Weekly said: 'Beagin stands out among fiction’s fresh crop of promising voices.' NPR Books says that 'Beagin is a wonderfully funny writer who also happens to tackle serious subjects.' Awards and nominations Awards Publishers Weekly has a starred review, calling it 'a sharp and superb novel' that 'pulls no punches-this novel is viciously smart and morbidly funny.' Big Swiss (2023) īig Swiss is about a woman who transcribes sex therapy sessions and how she falls for a client Flavia, the titular 'Big Swiss'. Vacuum in the Dark, a sequel to Pretend I’m Dead, received a starred Kirkus review and was named a best book for February 2019 by Oprah Magazine.

The novel was reissued as a hardcover in 2018 by Simon & Schuster. The popular website Emily Books gave an early positive review of the book, the first edition of which was published by Northwestern University Press in 2015. Pretend I’m Dead was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2018 First Novel Prize. Pretend I’m Dead, her first novel, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews which also noted it among the Best Fiction of 2018. This inspired the character of Mona, who is the housecleaner protagonist of her first two books. Professional life Īmong other jobs, Beagin was a long time housecleaner. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of California, Irvine. She returned to college in her mid-30s, and attended the University of Massachusetts Boston. Life and career Early life and education īeagin grew up in Torrance, California, and moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, in her youth. Jen Beagin is an American novelist and writer.

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