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Switzy by Emma Cline

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A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.

David is a retired executive flying toward a Zurich clinic and the end of his life, and along the way, his mind keeps slipping backward—into Sunday roasts, stiff church clothes, a summer at a friend's house he's never quite let go of. Switzy is less a plane ride than a reckoning.

Emma Cline, the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest, turns her scalpel-sharp eye on a life built from private planes and heirloom watches, and asks what's actually left underneath.

Darkly funny and quietly devastating, this is a portrait of wealth, memory, and the illusions people build to survive their own choices—one of the most anticipated novels of the year.

Preorder now — ships September 8, 2026

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE

A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times best selling author of The Girls and The Guest.

David is a retired executive flying toward a Zurich clinic and the end of his life, and along the way, his mind keeps slipping backward—into Sunday roasts, stiff church clothes, a summer at a friend's house he's never quite let go of. Switzy is less a plane ride than a reckoning.

Emma Cline, the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest, turns her scalpel-sharp eye on a life built from private planes and heirloom watches, and asks what's actually left underneath.

Darkly funny and quietly devastating, this is a portrait of wealth, memory, and the illusions people build to survive their own choices—one of the most anticipated novels of the year.

  • Publisher: Random House

    Title: Switzy

    Author: Emma Cline

    On Sale Date: September 8, 2026

    ISBN 13: 978-0593595244

    ISBN 10: 0593595246

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $32.00

    BISAC: FICTION / Literary

    Page Count: 352

    Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches

    Weight: 1.25 lbs

  • Emma Cline is the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls, The Guest, and the story collection Daddy. The Girls won the Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, while The Guest was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Granta named her one of its Best Young American Novelists, and Switzy marks her fourth novel and first appearance on the Booker Prize longlist.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it elegiac, hypnotic, and unforgettable:

    • Booker Prize judges call it "immersive, elegiac, and very real."

    • The New York Times says every sentence is "as sharp as a scalpel."

    • The New Yorker notes "there is something remarkable" on nearly every page.

    • Vogue praises Cline's gift for "menace that often lurks adjacent to our most glittery environments."

This book is for you if:

  • You’re drawn to novels that get inside a mind coming undone, one hazy memory at a time.

  • You loved The Girls or The Guest and want to see Cline turn her attention to a very different kind of main character.

  • You want a Booker Prize contender everyone will be discussing this fall, before the shortlist even drops.

  • You appreciate fiction that’s funny and heartbreaking in the same sentence.

  • You’re fascinated by stories that quietly interrogate wealth, privilege, and what they cost the people who have them.

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