-Title: Book Review: Nevada
+Title: Book Review: Imogen Binnie's <em>Nevada</em>
Date: 2020-01-01
Category: commentary
Tags: autogynephilia, review (book)
Status: draft
-> You sound so innocent
-> All full of good intent
-> You swear you know best
-> But you expect me to
-> Jump up on board with you
-> And ride off into your delusional sunset
+> _You sound so innocent
+> All full of good intent
+> You swear you know best
+> But you expect me to
+> Jump up on board with you
+> And ride off into your delusional sunset_
>
> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
I mean, I get why this book is so popular, but I'm not happy about it.
-_Nevada_ is the story of 29-year-old trans woman Maria Griffiths, who w
+_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.
+In Star City, Nevada, she meets an autogynephilic
+
+James isn't buying it. Then he steals her heroin and the book ends.
+
+https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-road/
+
+https://archive.is/kDO75
+
+https://github.com/ZoeyWolfe/have-you-read-nevada
+
+http://web.archive.org/web/20171013145452/http://haveyoureadnevada.com/nevada.pdf
+
+[...]
the next time someone tell you AGP is rare
And ask them, "Have you read _Nevada_?"
-
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/nevada-imogen-binnie-transgender/
+
+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")
+https://www.vulture.com/article/profile-imogen-binnie-nevada.html
+https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/the-invention-of-the-trans-novel-imogen-binnie-nevada
+
+> it doesn't feature nonbinary characters, and a similar novel written today would require them, not least for accuracy.
+(2013 was less than a decade ago!!)
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