Nevada edition by Imogen Binnie Literature Fiction eBooks
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Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. When she finds out her girlfriend has lied to her, the world she thought she’d carefully built for herself begins to unravel, and Maria sets out on a journey that will most certainly change her forever.
Nevada edition by Imogen Binnie Literature Fiction eBooks
An honest portrayal of a trans woman by a trans woman. Imogen Binnie is kind of my hero. She's weird and funny and incredibly smart and this book reflects her personality beautifully. In addition to its refreshingly frank description of a trans woman going through things most people in their twenties and thirties can relate to, this book also offers some biting commentary on the current state of Brooklyn hipster culture. This is an excellent book and no doubt an important one. My only critique is that the manuscript still desperately needs a good proofreader. It really isn't press ready. It needs someone who can preserve Imogen's idiosyncratic prose but fix the many typos, including the one instance in which the tense betrays the story's roots in memoir.Product details
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Nevada edition by Imogen Binnie Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Account of a working class transwoman in New York, and her adventures in trying to live her life as herself and on her own terms.
I wanted to love it but didn't. The ending left me feeling unfulfilled, like the book amounted to nothing... perhaps that was intentional, but I didn't like it personally.
I loved this book! I have read it twice now. I cared about the characters. At the book's end, I wanted to know what happened to the main characters.
The book is overflowing with ideas. It is not a quick read, but I was drawn to author's opinions on the topics she raises. I wondered about the author's views on topics she did not discuss.
There are many books about the struggles of people who want transition. This book is unique because it is about a protagonist who feels she has completed her transition. Now, she faces her life with a history that makes it difficult for her to move forward.
As a girl with little knowledge on the transgender experience - if anything I'd been bored lately with my typically liberal & tolerant views & wondered If gender is socially constructed, how can people feel biologically driven toward a certain gender, especially one that conflicts with their biological sex & ostensibly the way they're being socialized? While the book didn't answer that question in particular, it follows a transgender woman who is negotiating a breakup and losing her job all the while reflecting on her experiences being transgender. Wryly funny and whip smart, Binnie manages to interweave heady gender theory with an engaging plot and relatable likeable characters. And the book was interlaced with head-nodding observations on pop culture and the general human experience. So in addition to writing something that could save the lives of people tortured by their inability to 'fit in,' Binnie graphically demonstrates the universal humanness of people, regardless of their gender/sexuality, which is an incredible contribution to our culture in general.
If you want a trans story that isn't a transition story (or one where the girl gets beat up) or an American Road Novel without the men, or just a book about being dumped, fired and pissed off in Brooklyn, this if for you. This book is all for you. Binnie destroys it with stream of consciousness style, packing dialogue, snappy one liners and feelings all into chapters that suck you in and don't let you go.
The thing that is most extraordinary about this novel should not be. Nevada shows a transperson as a fully complex human being. Personal and societal experience with gender is explored, but not in a vacuum. It is wonderful to see fully rounded characters addressing issues that feel real.
[Very minor spoilers]
It's interesting to me to see reviews of people who "don't get it". Like, obviously? If you're not a trans woman, you'll never truly get it. I am, and it was painfully relatable. Thankfully, I'm not Maria, but I've been her and know people who still are-- filled with so much knowledge and yet incapable of using it to actually connect with others.
People who are searching to understand Maria are falling into the same trap. It's something I've experienced way too often. People trying to figure out what it's like to be trans woman without actually trying to connect to me as a real and complex person. Things like, people asking invasive gender/physiology questions before trying to find out what kind of books I like to read. Or people reading a lot about trans women and hoping that somehow it'll make us best friends.
Yet, I'm not someone who can be "understood". Neither is Maria. Sadly, Maria can't seem to apply that to herself. More importantly, she doesn't seem to get that she can't just force a cookie cutter version of her own experiences onto other trans women to help them understand themselves better.
I understand the drive of desperately needing to understand who you are. When so much of what you've been told about yourself is wrong, it can make you question your identity well past your gender. It can take a lot of unlearning, learning, and contemplation just to accept yourself as a human being. Imogen Binnie and Nevada have helped me with that immensely.
Side note the actual road trip being missing seems to me like an analogy for the fact that Imogen Binnie intentionally leaves out any transition narrative/tropes (Maria has already arrived at living full time as a woman and James hasn't left yet).
An honest portrayal of a trans woman by a trans woman. Imogen Binnie is kind of my hero. She's weird and funny and incredibly smart and this book reflects her personality beautifully. In addition to its refreshingly frank description of a trans woman going through things most people in their twenties and thirties can relate to, this book also offers some biting commentary on the current state of Brooklyn hipster culture. This is an excellent book and no doubt an important one. My only critique is that the manuscript still desperately needs a good proofreader. It really isn't press ready. It needs someone who can preserve Imogen's idiosyncratic prose but fix the many typos, including the one instance in which the tense betrays the story's roots in memoir.
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