Fat Swim

“Emma Copley 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.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

“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.”—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

“Absolutely everything I ever imagined for the future of American fiction . . . These interconnected stories blitzed my brain and gut.”—Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division

“Spiky, acerbic, and utterly addictive . . . a book as provocative as it is lush, traversing everything from toxic beauty startups to viral sex tapes.”—Playboy

“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.”—Electric Literature

“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.”—Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

“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.”—Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance

“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 My Dear You

“I loved these stories—funny and sad and deeply resonant.”—Marcy Dermansky, author of Hot Air

“Glittering . . . There’s plenty to admire in these offbeat tales.”—Publishers Weekly

“Dynamic . . . [Eisenberg’s] bold, vivid stories will capture the reader’s attention.”—Booklist