Queer Book Club Fall 2024

Queer Bozeman is thrilled to launch Queer Book Club! Our first gathering is on Sunday, November 10, from 11am-1pm at the Country Bookshelf. We will will be discussing Nevada by Imogen Binnie.

RSVPs help us get a solid headcount and set up the space. Please RSVP with us by claiming a FREE ticket.

The event at a glance:

• On November 10th, please arrive early to secure your seat. Seating is first come, first serve.
• At 11:00 am, we will start the book discussion! Reading the book beforehand is the traditional way to engage in a book club discussion, but if you'd like to come after reading only part or none of the book, we'll still welcome your presence and company!

Accessibility Information:

• The event will take place on the first floor of Country Bookshelf.
• All doorways have a width greater than 32 inches, with the narrowest being the front door, which is 35 inches.
• Please email [email protected] if you have any specific accessibility needs and we will do our best to serve you!

About Nevada:

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels
"[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker
"Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip.
Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall.
One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.

In town

• Country Bookshelf has paperback copies in stock for $18.00. They can be purchased in person at the store at 28 West Main Street, Bozeman, online here, or over the phone by calling 406-587-0166.
• Barnes and Noble at the Gallatin Valley Mall has Nevada in stock for $18.00. The Barnes and Noble online store also has Nevada.

Online

• Bookshop.org, an online shop that supports Indie bookstores, supplies paperback copies for $16.74.
• Amazon has the book available new in Paperback for $12.89, used from $7.69, in Audible audio format for $14.99 , and Kindle e-book for $11.99.
• Other online retailers that have the book include Powells, Target, and Books-A-Million.

Audio

• Montana Overdrive has one copy available for loans as of typing this.
• The Queer Liberation Library has one copy, but several months wait for that loan.
• Libro.FM, an audio-book service similar to Audible (Amazon's service) that supports independent bookstores, has available in audio for $20.99. Signing up for their subscription ($14.99 per month) gets you one free audiobook each month.

If you find the book available in another location, through another service, or at a library, let us know and we'll update this description for others!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Country Bookshelf, 28 West Main Street, Bozeman, United States