Maria is a trans woman living in Brooklyn, working in a bookstore, with no interest whatsoever in what she is doing for a living. Her relationship is about to end and other persons that may be of love interest do not show her seriously. She is a little bit of everything but nothing completely.
Once jobless though, she is embarking on a road trip, while driving the loaned car of the ex-partner. As best meetings do happen on the road, Maria crosses the path of James, a young in which she may reflect herself at a different stage in life. Maria is four years out of her transition. James may be or not coming out.
Although the story moves in the pace of a reportage, Maria never ceases to question the body. The body - as a physiology, as observed from outside, as an object to be embellished - stays in the center of the daily conversation and routine.
The book was published in 2013 and it suits the historical time-bounded narrative, especially the online context, where Maria is doing so well, much better compared to her relatively pathetic real life.
Personally, I´ve found Nevada by Imogen Binnie an interesting and revealing work of trans fiction of a very clear historical relevance, both from the literary point of view, as well as from the trans story perspective.
Rating: 3 stars
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