content/drafts/book-review-nevada.md

   1 Title: Book Review: Imogen Binnie's <em>Nevada</em>
   2 Date: 2020-01-01
   3 Category: commentary
   4 Tags: autogynephilia, review (book)
   5 Status: draft
   6
   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_
  13 >
  14 > —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
  15
  16 I don't get why this book is so popular.
  17
  18 I mean, I get why this book is so popular, but I'm not happy about it.
  19
  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.
  21
  22 In Star City, Nevada, she meets an autogynephilic
  23
  24 James isn't buying it. Then he steals her heroin and the book ends.
  25
  26 https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-road/
  27
  28 https://archive.is/kDO75
  29
  30 https://github.com/ZoeyWolfe/have-you-read-nevada
  31
  32 http://web.archive.org/web/20171013145452/http://haveyoureadnevada.com/nevada.pdf
  33
  34 [...]
  35
  36 the next time someone tell you AGP is rare
  37
  38 And ask them, "Have you read _Nevada_?"
  39
  40 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/nevada-imogen-binnie-transgender/
  41
  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
  45
  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!!)