![]() ![]() ![]() She spontaneously journeys across the country in her girlfriend's “borrowed” car and meets an individual she views as a younger version of herself who she hopes to inspire. ![]() A confrontation with her and taking one too many liberties at her job propels Maria out of her static existence. She's both trying to understand her own experience and demystify what it means to be trans because “Maria is transsexual and she is so meek she might disappear.” Though she's extremely forthright in her opinions concerning this, she's so emotionally inhibited her girlfriend is fed up. She observes how “Her job exhausts her and her girlfriend exasperates her.” Her only real passions beside reading are riding her bicycle around the city and blogging about what it's really like to be a trans woman. Most of her days are spent lingering around the most obscure shelves of books and occasionally sneaking out to buy a bagel. She describes in brilliant tragi-comic scenes how she's settled into working at a large old bookstore in New York City. This is the employment Maria, the protagonist of Imogen Binnie's “Nevada”, has settled into. I've often thought I could have spent my life at this retail gig that I wasn't particularly skilled at simply because I like to be near books. When I was in my late teens I got a temporary job in a bookstore. ![]()
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