the result is one of the most controversial, explosive endings in LGBTQ literature. Daniel Spielberger, WĪ funny, profane, and melancholy portrayal of trans-ness. both very much of a specific era and timeless, brilliantly delving into the constant hum of self-consciousness that emerges when one is pushed towards the margins.
Binnie's fiction has so much to say about the queer and trans experience, bodily autonomy, community, and the ways queer people process trauma. This is hands down my favorite book of the summer. it's long past time for the cis reader to form a bond with the brilliance of work. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist-and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author- Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.Ī beautiful and occasionally disturbing complication of the oh-so-American trope of the cross-country road trip. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie's Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James's savior-or his downfall. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn't inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she's trans. She's in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." -Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyĪ beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. " Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am.
It is, if you like, punk rock." - The New Yorker " is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. One of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won't Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022
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