Where do you escape? How do you escape? There is never, to the insatiable, enough ground between the island of her birth and whatever edges are farthest to its North, South, East, and West. In her first collection of travel essays, Johanna Michelle Lim pursues 12 places around the Philippine archipelago—from the karst mountains of Batanes to the open seas of Tawi-tawi—to cull out stories born far from home. These are stories that fall in between things, spaces that fall in between places. These are stories that don't reveal themselves when you're looking just too near, stories of transit, stories distance tries to tell us.