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for the past six years, during which she came out as a transgender woman. On a Sunday in
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is a work of fiction, Binnie said she approached writing it as a transgender story written for trans women. "One of the questions I was trying to answer with Nevada was, what would a story about trans women that was intended for an audience of trans women — what would that look like?" Binnie told
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to excoriate him on air, but getting too nervous to say anything. After arriving at the casino, James steals Maria's heroin while she's in the bathroom. Maria abandons James at the casino. The book ends with Nicole giving James a ride home; the fates of the main characters are left unclear.
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to avoid thinking about both his gender identity and how it would affect his relationship with his girlfriend, Nicole. Maria arrives at the store James works at, and immediately realizes that he is likely transgender. After purchasing a
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as having "changed the landscape of trans fiction—in part because it made no concessions to tourists." and argued that the book had become central to "the invention of the trans novel" in the 2010s.
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for promoting it. The two arrive at a restaurant, where they make plans to visit a casino. While at the restaurant, Maria gives further criticism of
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