1 Title: Book Review: Imogen Binnie's <em>Nevada</em>
4 Tags: autogynephilia, review (book)
7 > _You sound so innocent
8 > All full of good intent
9 > You swear you know best
10 > But you expect me to
11 > Jump up on board with you
12 > And ride off into your delusional sunset_
14 > —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
16 I don't get why this book is so popular.
18 I mean, I get why this book is so popular, but I'm not happy about it.
20 _Nevada_ is the story of 29-year-old trans woman Maria Griffiths, who steals her girlfriend's car and goes on a cross-country road trip.
22 In Star City, Nevada, she meets an autogynephilic
24 James isn't buying it. Then he steals her heroin and the book ends.
26 https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-road/
28 https://archive.is/kDO75
30 https://github.com/ZoeyWolfe/have-you-read-nevada
32 http://web.archive.org/web/20171013145452/http://haveyoureadnevada.com/nevada.pdf
36 the next time someone tell you AGP is rare
38 And ask them, "Have you read _Nevada_?"
40 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/nevada-imogen-binnie-transgender/
42 Even the reviews of Nevada don't reveal the secret!!—okay, the New Yorker one sort of does ("erotic transvestite scenarios", "liking girls just in a totally impossible way")
43 https://www.vulture.com/article/profile-imogen-binnie-nevada.html
44 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/the-invention-of-the-trans-novel-imogen-binnie-nevada
46 > it doesn't feature nonbinary characters, and a similar novel written today would require them, not least for accuracy.
47 (2013 was less than a decade ago!!)