Inspiration īinnie has said that in writing a story about a transgender protagonist, she wanted to resist the risk of explaining 'The Trans Experience for cis people,' which she says often happens with transgender memoirs. Maria frequently lapses into long inner monologues throughout the book, reflecting on gender, heteronormativity, and social conditioning. In Nevada, she meets James Hanson, and immediately realizes that James is also transgender, but doesn't realize it yet. When Maria finds out her girlfriend cheated on her, she spirals out of control, stealing her girlfriend's car and buying heroin before heading west on a journey of self-discovery. In 2022, Binnie appeared on Storybound reading an excerpt from 'Nevada', complete with an original score and sound design by Jude Brewer. Later that summer Binnie retweeted that Nevada would be published in June 2022 by Picador, making it available in the UK for the first time. In June 2021 it was announced that Nevada would be reissued in Fall 2022 by MCD Books' FSG Originals due to its enduring popularity. Nevada was originally released by Topside Press in 2013.

Nevada follows the adventures of transgender New York punk woman Maria Griffiths. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist-and featuring a new afterword by the author- Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Nevada: A Novel is the debut novel from author Imogen Binnie, released by Topside Press in 2013. 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. 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.

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