" 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. 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.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 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. 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.' - Brontez Purnell It seems simple, but it had revolutionary effects, similar to Toni Morrison's famous declaration that she 'writes for Black women.' remains an original - Torrey Peters 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. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781529092066 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 208 g Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 29 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature. Nevada is a hilarious, groundbreaking cult classic from Imogen Binnie that inspired a whole literary movement, and is now published in the UK for the very first time. Maria recognizes elements of her younger self in James and the pair quickly form an unlikely but powerful connection, one that will have big implications for them both.
She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters.Īfter her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria steals her car and heads for the Pacific, embarking on her version of the Great American Road Trip.Īlong the way she stops in Reno, Nevada, and meets James, a young man who works in the local Wal-Mart. Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere.
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