How do you find your rightful place? 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. From San Francisco to Siem Reap, from Thailand to the Philippines, Wilfredo Pascual writes with beauty and courage: "The wayward universe of the past is my new wilderness and it tugs relentlessly, this epic finding of a rightful place. It won't let go." Critic J Pilapil Jacobo describes these essays as "tropical writing, diasporic, queer in its confidence, and ultimately human in its confession." "You Have Me," the author's award-winning essay on genetics ancestry, a dying father and a son's marriage is "...durable, clear... Its mix of research into the sciences and recounting of the personal are savvily and seamlessly twined." (Albert Goldbarth, two-time National Book Critics Circle Awardee)