Maria is neurotic, there’s no doubt about that, and she’s cynical, and punk, and sarcastic, and (as Danika wrote in her review) post-post everything. Of course, since I’m cisgender I can’t pretend to understand the emotional, physical, and mental stuff that’s trans specific in this novel, but I will say that I found that living in Maria’s head for a few days a challenging, heartbreaking, scary, breath-taking experience.Īnd this is definitely a novel where you feel like you’re living (trapped?) in someone else’s head for a while. She’s in her late twenties, she’s living in Brooklyn with her cis girlfriend, working in a bookstore in Manhattan, and trying to deal with life and her shit. Nevada follows the life of a queer trans woman named Maria. Nevada crept in under cover of night in 2013 and assumed its position as a classic while everyone's attention was elsewhere.this is one for the ages.I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to get to reading Nevada by Imogen Binnie! I finished it a few days before Christmas and am still feeling the impact of this powerful, thought-provoking novel. Torrey Peters I fully tip my hat to former fellow Maximum Rock N Roll columnist and my sibling in the latter-day queer punk literary revolution I say without hesitation that we do not deserve Imogen Binnie AT ALL.it is truly a joy to watch a master of suspense paint the page with a both-feet-on-the-gas-pedal inner monologue, that is at once, spontaneous, acidic, razor sharp observant, fully embodied and (most importantly) vulnerable.TENS ACROSS THE GODDAMN BOARD.'īrontez Purnell I've told people that Nevada is the On the Road of trans literature, but that's glib and unfair to Imogen Binnie, who is a lot smarter than Jack Kerouac. It seems simple, but it had revolutionary effects, similar to Toni Morrison's famous declaration that she 'writes for Black women.' remains an original The scene had a basic premise: trans women writing for other trans women.
This is the book that launched the trans writing scene in Brooklyn that changed my own life.
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