{"product_id":"fat-swim-isbn-9780593242261","title":"Fat Swim","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn electrifying collection 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026:\u003ci\u003e Playboy, Literary Hub, Debutiful, LGBTQ Reads, SheReads\/The Stacks, Publishers Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.“Emma Copley Eisenberg is attuned to every beautiful, terrible human thing: desire, shame, sensation, connection. \u003ci\u003eFat Swim\u003c\/i\u003e is a lush, radical meditation on the body’s pleasure and potential.”\u003cb\u003e—Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Dream House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These are some of the best short stories I’ve read in a long time—vivid, surprising, and pin-sharp. Emma Copley Eisenberg is a phenomenal talent. Buy this collection and thank me later.”\u003cb\u003e—Kelly Link, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Book of Lov\u003c\/b\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Absolutely everything I ever imagined for the future of American fiction . . . These interconnected stories blitzed my brain and gut.”\u003cb\u003e—Kiese Laymon, author of \u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spiky, acerbic, and utterly addictive . . . a book as provocative as it is lush, traversing everything from toxic beauty startups to viral sex tapes.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The collection resists the erasure of fat bodies in American letters, mostly by giving us all too rare portraits of pleasure and desire. Grace Paley is in these pages, as is summer, and ice cream, and Ray’s Birthday Bar, and refusing to be defined in binary terms.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I can’t stop thinking about these stories. Emma Copley Eisenberg is one of the most interesting and observant young fiction writers on the scene.”\u003cb\u003e—Andrea Lawlor, author of \u003ci\u003ePaul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eisenberg has a spooky talent for inhabiting the minds of completely disparate people. All the narrators are funny, wise, and heartbreaking, and know how to tell a quick, gripping story.”\u003cb\u003e—Torrey Peters, author of \u003ci\u003eStag Dance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Funny, mordant, and tender all at once—this is the rare book that exuberantly inhabits the human body, in all its grossness and glory.”\u003cb\u003e—Rachel Khong, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Dear You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I loved these stories—funny and sad and deeply resonant.”\u003cb\u003e—Marcy Dermansky, author of \u003ci\u003eHot Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Glittering . . . There’s plenty to admire in these offbeat tales.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dynamic . . . [Eisenberg’s] bold, vivid stories will capture the reader’s attention.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Copley Eisenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of the novel \u003ci\u003eHousemates\u003c\/i\u003e, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, as well as the nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eThe Third Rainbow Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and Editor’s Choice and a finalist for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in such publications as \u003ci\u003eGranta, Esquire, VQR, The New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Cut, \u003c\/i\u003eand she writes the popular Substack \u003ci\u003eFrump Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts.Nationally bestselling author of Housemates","brand":"Hogarth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233165029605,"sku":"NP9780593242261","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593242261.jpg?v=1767726762","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fat-swim-isbn-9780593242261","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}