It sounds like every road novel before it, but I think Nevada is smarter than the norm and certainly comes at it from a different angle. When she gets dumped and loses her job in quick succession, she goes on a journey across the US to try and figure shit out. She’s carefully crafted a life for herself she thinks works, but finds herself almost going through the motions, like she’s playing a role. She has a crappy job at a bookstore, rides her bike everywhere and lives by a punker ethos it’s no shocker she sings along to her Fugazi CDs. It follows Maria Griffiths, a young trans woman living in New York. A searing, memorable trip through New York, the Nevada desert and more, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is great, a fantastic debut novel.
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