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Books directly descended from Nevada: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. It has differing core themes (queer parenthood) but it basically continues the spirit of Nevada, which is “surly damaged trans woman bitches for 300 pages about how everything sucks in New York”. It’s enjoyable I think, I like Reese as a protagonist and Ames is equally sympathetic and infuriating to watch pretend to be a dude.
Books stylistically very similar to Nevada:
Little Fish by Casey Plett, which is similar but set in Alberta (or something Idk ) and follows Wendy through her weird relationship with having been raised Mennonite.
Otros Valles by Jamie Berrout. The yin to Nevada’s yang, featuring direct intertext and one of the only trams women of colour I’ve seen author a novel about being trans and not white. Very rad.
Books tangentially related to Nevada:
Little Blue Encyclopedia by Hazel Jane Plante: Narrator recounts the life of her deceased and beloved friend Vivian, through an encyclopedia of things from her favourite in-universe TV show, and it’s the best pining-for-a-straight-girl I have ever read.
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt: Here’s a book where Nevada’s blog-lecture style clashes horribly against a horror tale with a really simple theme about the British being fash. I thought it was awful but you might like it?
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin: Check the content warnings on Storygraph, this book is an absolute hot mess, paced weirdly and reads like an unhinged trauma dump. But, its focus on assimilation and queer community building makes it worth engaging with for strong-stomached readers.
That’s all the books with sorta-ties to Nevada I can think of, I have a lot more novels with trans wlw as leads hanging out too though. (Read The Last Girl Scout by Natalie Ironside!!!)
for anyone else interested in Otros Valles, it took a tiny bit of digging to find because the author seems to have disappeared online, I’ll supply a link through DMs
Hi! Jamie Berrout made a really intentional decision to drop off the internet. I think its important to respect her wishes and not spread her work too widely. Me and @ashinadash@hexbear.net have had some conversations about it in the past. Interested in hearing your thoughts.
I say this as a total hypocrite who spent years looking for ‘Otros Valles’ too @.@
I think it’d be better to have it available to anyone that wants it now that it’s unavailable commercially afaik, but I’ll take the link down for now.
