“Eisenberg is attuned to every beautiful, terrible human thing: desire, shame, sensation, connection. Fat Swim is a lush, radical meditation on the body’s pleasure and potential. I know I’ll be returning to these stories again and again.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties
“Emma Copley Eisenberg has a spooky talent for inhabiting the minds of completely disparate people. I’d accuse Fat Swim of being an occult collection of stolen souls made to speak in a book, except that all the narrators are funny, wise, and heartbreaking, and know how to tell a quick gripping story—which is a sure sign that Eisenberg’s huge skill is ultimately responsible.”—Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition, Baby
“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—I could stack superlative after superlative here, and mean every single one. Buy this collection and thank me later.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love and White Cat, Black Dog
“Emma Copley Eisenberg truly gets life, putting details on the page like no one else—sexual identity and gender identity and fatness and thinness and love and heartbreak and family and Philadelphia—in her short story collection Fat Swim. I also underlined my favorite new term ‘my ex-best friend forever’ because oh, how I related. I loved these stories—funny and sad and deeply resonant.”—Marcy Dermansky, author of Hot Air and Hurricane Girl
“Fat Swim feels strangely foundational to everything good that American fiction has been while being absolutely everything I ever imagined for the future of American fiction. These interconnected stories blitzed my brain and gut. Emma Copley Eisenberg is in that rare zone from first to last word in this wonder book. Prepare to be shaken.”—Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division and Heavy
“I love the way Emma Copley Eisenberg observes the world so precisely, attuned to unexpected—yet perfect—details. Fat Swim is lush with physical life and bodily sensation, vivid with textures and colors and temperature. Funny, mordant, and tender all at once—this is the rare book that exuberantly inhabits the human body, in all its grossness and glory.”—Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans and Goodbye, Vitamin
