

I remember the trend of referring to that type of person as a “James H.,” in reference to the Walmart clerk in the titular state whom the novel’s protagonist, Maria Griffiths, tries and fails to force into a gender epiphany.

I remember half a dozen conversations where a young woman said the book helped her transition, and many more where someone spoke about gifting the book to a friend they suspected might do the same. I remember a website, Have You Read Nevada, where you could download a free PDF of the book. A couple years after the now-defunct Topside Press first published Imogen Binnie’s novel in 2013, a lot of young trans writers I knew called it a book that made them want to write. Here’s something I remember about Nevada.
