![]() ![]() ![]() Nevada follows the adventures of transgender New York punk woman Maria Griffiths. The book was also nominated for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction. Nevada A Novel is the debut novel from author Imogen Binnie, released by Topside Press in 2013. Nevada received a negative review in magazine Publishers Weekly, but inspired other trans women writers, like author Casey Plett, who says the book was "very bleak and it ends in a tough way," but ultimately made her feel that "nothing was off-limits" to write about. "One of the questions I was trying to answer with Nevada was, what would a story about trans women that was intended for an audience of trans women - what would that look like?" Binnie told blogger Sarah McCarry in an interview about the book. ![]() Because Nevada is a work of fiction, Binnie said she approached writing it as a transgender story written for trans women. Inspirationīinnie 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. Griffiths 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 Hanson is also transgender, but doesn't realize it yet. When Griffiths 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. ![]()
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