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Nevada
- A Novel
- Gesprochen von: Imogen Binnie
- Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 40 Min.
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2022 New Yorker Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
This program is read by the author.
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.
Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, 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. 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 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. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall.
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. 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Kritikerstimmen
"Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
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- Ava Vonier
- 21.06.2023
Amazing trans representation, finally
Bare with me, might be a bit long.
I love this novel. It's the best and most relatable piece of trans media I've seen or read so far. The characters are realistic, you can feel them, their struggle, their difficulties and their reasoning. As a trans woman, the personal struggle with your body, the struggle with sex, with relationships, with strangers, at work, anywhere really has never been portrayed that well. It also shows we aren't just trans, whilst it's a major part we can't ignore due to biology and society it's not all just that. Also the bad relationship with drugs, how it's a coping mechanism some people are forced in to deal with what they experience...
But well, here a few criticisms for this otherwise great novel (slight spoilers ahead!)
The novel ends really abruptly, and the characters don't get any resolution to their problems. And I hate that. Whilst it's not a bad ending, it's certainly not a happy ending either. Especially for LGBT stories I hoped for a more satisfying ending, finally having an lgbt story that ends well, cause we all can need some happy endings even if it's just in fiction.
Does Maria get back to NY, does she resolve things with Steph and becomes friends with her whilst also valuing Pariah? (We do kinda get a hint that she plans to do that?) What about James, does he resolve his struggle with gender and his relationship with Nicole? What's going to happen? We have no idea even if the characters certainly learned more and are on the right track in the end, it's not enough for a person like me who needs resolve badly.
Either way, glad to see a novel I can relate to in terms of being trans and we certainly need more like this. Great Job Imogen.
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