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Nevada by Imogen Binnie6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Here, Binnie speaks with over Zoom about writing for one’s own community, how it’s hard to transition if you’re not ready, and the novel that would remind her of Chuck Palahniuk if Chuck Palahniuk wasn’t obnoxious. This June, however, Nevada will be receiving a splashy reprint from FSG Originals. Maria resolves to help James, and the result is one of the most controversial, explosive endings in LGBTQ literature.īinnie went on to write for TV shows like Cruel Summer, while Nevada’s publisher folded. In tiny-town, Nevada, Maria meets James Hanson, a stoner and likely closeted trans woman who isn’t even old enough to drink. Maria is a 29-year-old trans woman who chronically forgets her estrogen shots, gets fired from her job in New York City, and blows her savings on heroin, all before stealing her ex-girlfriend’s car and aimlessly driving out west. ![]() Set in 2008, the novel is a funny, profane, and melancholy portrayal of trans-ness. Sardonically unconcerned with appealing to a wider cisgender audience, Nevada was a particular contrast to the buttoned-down memoirs of trans writers then yore. Nine years ago, Imogen Binnie published Nevada, a novel whose punk-rock protagonist, Maria Griffiths, sent shockwaves around the then budding renaissance of transgender literature. ![]()
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