{"product_id":"fat-swim-fiction","title":"Fat Swim: Fiction: Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"stunning, at times shocking collection\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) of linked stories following a cast of characters navigating bodies, queerness, power, and sex--with radical results--from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHousemates\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These interconnected stories blitzed my brain and gut. Prepare to be shaken.\"--Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026: \u003ci\u003e Playboy, Literary Hub, Debutiful, LGBTQ Reads, Electric Lit, SheReads\/The Stacks, Publishers Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a brash and stylish voice that implicates and confronts the reader, Emma Copley Eisenberg wades into the contradictions, joys, and violence of a modern world shaped by looking and watching, examining how our hungers can both hijack and crack open our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the title story, a young girl looks to a group of fat women at her local pool to teach her about her changing body. In \"Swiffer Girl,\" a woman agrees to try for a baby with her partner, only to suddenly find herself haunted by the viral sex video that made the rounds during high school--a video indelibly tied to her own sense of self. In other stories, an obscure fat makeup vlogger's strange friendship with a middle schooler forces her to reflect on her past life at a toxic beauty startup, a boomer retiree tries to understand her nonbinary child's gender and polyamory, and a trans librarian takes a job as assistant to a famous science fiction writer only to find himself screening hookups on his octogenarian employer's behalf. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor better or for worse, these stories counsel, none of us can leave our bodies behind: they remind us what it is to be alive. As the characters in \u003ci\u003eFat Swim\u003c\/i\u003e dance into and out of each other's lives--and through and around Philadelphia--they seek connections and experiences that remind them of that fact, culminating in a reality-bending, tour de force finale, \"Camp Sensation.\" Eisenberg, whose fiction \"should be studied by every contemporary author as the finest departure from the fatphobic hellscape of fiction that exists\" (\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e), has a singular vision, and \u003ci\u003eFat Swim\u003c\/i\u003e is her most incisive and provocative work yet.","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53639940112750,"sku":"9780593242261","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_6fd14a49-bcec-423b-8081-9416166eef22.jpg?v=1776618066","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/fat-swim-fiction","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}