Nevada
He was called Nevada, a name he took to lose his past. As a boy he had been thrown among brutal and evil men. He had worked himself above their influence time and again, only to be thrown back, by his own desire for justice or vengeance, into the midst of strife. With a new identity he made a new reputation, but old troubles and old enemies haunted him wherever he went. Nevada was the quiet type who would rather work hard and plan for better days. Skilled with a horse and a rope, he could also shoot fast and straight. As he got closer to thinking he could get back to the woman he loved, a gang of rustlers threatened everything. Once again, he had to choose between risks, if his passions didn’t choose for him.
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Maria Griffiths is a trans woman working at a Brooklyn bookstore until her relationship and her life come apart in one weekend. She steals her ex-girlfriend's car and drives west, ending up in a small town in Nevada.
Multiple novels share this title. The most searched is Nevada by Imogen Binnie (2013), a defining trans literary novel that was reissued in 2022 and brought wider attention. The metadata above lists Zane Grey, who wrote a 1928 western also titled Nevada.
No. Nevada by Imogen Binnie is fiction, though many readers note its closeness to her own experience as a trans woman. It is widely cited as a foundational novel in modern trans literature.
Nevada is 322 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Nevada takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Nevada is a standalone novel by Zane Grey, not part of a series.
Nevada is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
