Clear Side Of Forever

The world is not the same to everyone. It is just the way it goes—around the time the peony blossoms go to the dogs, the ground starts to shift. In a landscape defined by the "e;neighbor to the south"e; and the slow, inevitable onslaught of a dominant language, Nicolas and his people exist in a state of constant negotiation. They are not lost—the world simply changed around them. The Clear Side of Forever is a haunting post-mortem on what it means to belong when your status, your gender, and your very sense of self are revealed to be products of property and proximity, rather than biology.