Nevada Hardcover – 1 January 2013

Really enjoyed reading this. It has such an interesting and engaging narrative surrounding trans folk, identity & queerness whilst being so painfully self-aware, self-mythologisation is built and deconstructed in the same sentence. A1. Loved it.

Who'd a thunk it. Binnie does a great job of the inner monologue that many of us trans women go through. Despite a very different life than the main character Maria, i grokked much of her inner world. If you want glimpse of real thoughts feelings and fears, read this book. The ending was a bit too indie movie for me if that's a thing, but overall the mess of being trans is cleverly and truthfully portayed.

Great Book

Jesus, that ending. Hell, the whole story. It leaves you so down. But how else could it end?I just finished the book, and am trying to process it. I don't think words can express what I'm feeling, as cliched as that is. The only thing I can think of is the first Bad Lieutenant movie, weird enough.A lot of people hate that movie, but it always struck a chord with me. I never knew why, until I saw a review that said you had to have gone to Catholic school in order to get it. Then, it clicked. Yeah, that's *exactly* why that movie messed me up, why I kept thinking about it. The only words I can use to talk about it are, "Well, I went to Catholic school. So, it meant something to me." People stare at me agog, but there's nothing else I can say.This book has me feeling the exact same way. Mostly. It has nothing to do with Catholic school. It's entirely a gender and sexuality thing. It's a being confused in life thing. But a specific type of it. Either you're gonna get it, you're not, or you're going to pretend to.That's all I can say.You should read it.

I really wanted to love this novel; unfortunately however the character development never happened and the story is so meandering (the entire first half) and cliché that it never grabbed my total interest. On a positive note, I found several passages in the novel brilliant and really insightful with respect to the lived experience of a trans woman (speaking from experience), but I wanted that incorporated into a compelling story. The ending left me annoyed more than anything--the author doesn't have enough depth in her storytelling here to warrant the main characters' exasperation and irresponsibility.