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A review by bookishflaneur
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
adventurous
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
nevada was a really strongly written characterisation of a trans experience that was difficult to put down. it studies different aspects of transitioning and living a trans life and what comes before with so much nuance from the extremely specific perspective of a thirty-something trans woman living in new york. it’s sort of advertised as a road trip novel but it’s really about how we travel in circles until eventually those circle become spirals and we are sort of climbing through life although it feels like we keep returning to mistakes and low points.
i think the blurb was misleading. there’s so much reflection in this book, so much this is something that went wrong and i realise that but how the fuck do i fix it and i really appreciated how real it was. the main character and the secondary characters were extremely fleshed out but i think that the author was trying to show with the ending that not every story has a happy ending or a resolution, and i think while that was good in hindsight there might have been some reflection on this. overall a really interesting read and an insight to what it was like growing up trans in earlier decades than the one we live in now.
this book definitely made me feel uncomfortable a lot and i think that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. it doesn’t shy away from the language of the time or certain cultural norms that have definitely changed over time.
i think the blurb was misleading. there’s so much reflection in this book, so much this is something that went wrong and i realise that but how the fuck do i fix it and i really appreciated how real it was. the main character and the secondary characters were extremely fleshed out but i think that the author was trying to show with the ending that not every story has a happy ending or a resolution, and i think while that was good in hindsight there might have been some reflection on this. overall a really interesting read and an insight to what it was like growing up trans in earlier decades than the one we live in now.
this book definitely made me feel uncomfortable a lot and i think that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. it doesn’t shy away from the language of the time or certain cultural norms that have definitely changed over time.