'Nevada' by Imogen Binnie has been reissued.
I had, on occasion, previously read novels by authors that spoke to my psychic interior quite deeply (Lessing, Angela Carter, Diski, Kelman, LeGuin, Dick, Kafka), but reading 'Nevada' was on another level. I had never felt so perceived, never read a book that seemed so psychologically accurate. Even though it's about a woman taking a road trip from New York with some heroin, something I've never done or will do, it struck to my heart.
If you're at all interested in the interiority of trans women, what it's like to be us, what it is like to exist in a body that can feel like a tomb or a badly fitting meatsuit, I urge you to read it.
Binnie talks about the book, and her life, here - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/...arly-internet/
A profile of Binnie and the book - https://www.vulture.com/article/prof...ie-nevada.html
I had, on occasion, previously read novels by authors that spoke to my psychic interior quite deeply (Lessing, Angela Carter, Diski, Kelman, LeGuin, Dick, Kafka), but reading 'Nevada' was on another level. I had never felt so perceived, never read a book that seemed so psychologically accurate. Even though it's about a woman taking a road trip from New York with some heroin, something I've never done or will do, it struck to my heart.
If you're at all interested in the interiority of trans women, what it's like to be us, what it is like to exist in a body that can feel like a tomb or a badly fitting meatsuit, I urge you to read it.
Binnie talks about the book, and her life, here - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/...arly-internet/
A profile of Binnie and the book - https://www.vulture.com/article/prof...ie-nevada.html
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