What is gender? Arai learns he has none but presents as male.  Learning how he has gone and about explored areas of his life with his male partner, I liked many of the stories of his life.  And it's life from an elder. A nice change up from usually reading about the younger years of the community the hard part about it in this volume is that the pacing is slow and characters' images seem to similar to know who is who.  As well as being unable to follow  each chapter due to planning