Name: Sésame's review of Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Item: Nevada
Rating: 4
Author: Sésame

Imogen Binnie

"Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A 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. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, 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. 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 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. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. 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. 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.

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Nevada

Genesis (@whisperingchapters)

Sésame

Les personnages sont d'une justesse incroyable et racontent avec beaucoup de finesse un parcours trans mais aussi des parcours de prolo. C'est aussi un livre que j'étais soulagé de finir. Peut être aussi parce que les épreuves des personnages étaient dures à lire pour moi. Je n'aurai sans doute pas du le lire pendant des vacances. Mais je crois qu'il faut faire lire ce livre à beaucoup, beaucoup de monde.

La fin m'a beaucoup dérouté, à tel point que j'ai cru que la version que j'avais téléchargé n'étais pas complète et ce n'est qu'en achetant la version française que j'ai compris que c'était bien la fin.

C'est le premier livre que je lis en anglais (puis j'ai réalisé qu'il sortait la semaine suivante en français oups)

I’m glad I read this..definitely read it if you were considering it. I had never read a book with a trans protagonist but I look forward to reading more. 

Genesis (@whisperingchapters) &
Nevada by Imogen Binnie

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