![]() ![]() The descriptions of dissociation were uncomfortably close to home, for someone who’s dated someone who did this. Her girlfriend actually lies to her about cheating on her because she so desperately wants a strong reaction, any reaction from Maria. It’s that she’s so used to dissociating as a survival mechanism that even after coming out and transitioning she can’t turn it off. ![]() Hers is the kind of voice that brings up some seriously fucked-up shit in one breath and says ‘whatever’ in the next. Maria is neurotic, there’s no doubt about that, and she’s cynical, and punk, and sarcastic, and (as Danika wrote in her review) post-post everything. ![]() Of course, since I’m cisgender I can’t pretend to understand the emotional, physical, and mental stuff that’s trans specific in this novel, but I will say that I found that living in Maria’s head for a few days a challenging, heartbreaking, scary, breath-taking experience.Īnd this is definitely a novel where you feel like you’re living (trapped?) in someone else’s head for a while. ![]() She’s in her late twenties, she’s living in Brooklyn with her cis girlfriend, working in a bookstore in Manhattan, and trying to deal with life and her shit. Nevada follows the life of a queer trans woman named Maria. I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to get to reading Nevada by Imogen Binnie! I finished it a few days before Christmas and am still feeling the impact of this powerful, thought-provoking novel. ![]()
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