There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in
making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible
Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the
fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of
runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time,
which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild
guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this
fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the
tourist state of Belize.