Kilometer Zero: Personal Essays

In Kilometer Zero, prizewinning essayist Wilfredo Pascual gathers the shards of personal experience and grapples with time, space, and nature to illuminate a world turned upside down. In seven incandescent stories accompanied by original photographs, the author depicts home as a foreign country and elsewhere as a hazy image of the self. Across striking landscapes, we find a runaway child, sex-reversed tilapias, a nocturnal lemur, mass murderers, a heroic farmworkers' strike, and deadly earthquakes. Along the way, Pascual discovers writing itself as shelter and love as full of the world.

Published in 2016 by Marsilio

156 pages