Crashing America is considered a landmark work of LGBT+ literature. It was a finalist for three awards (the Lambda Literary, Triangle, and the Northern California Book Award). The United Kingdom's Rainbow Network and Amazon both chose it as one of the ten best LGBT books of the year. KATIA NOYES (Writer and Producer) on Willi Pascual: Wilfredo is one of those people with radar on his nerve endings, and his artist’s understanding of place is deep. He understands the layered complexity of identity and its relationship to political trauma, whether he writes about living among former members of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia or standing on earthquake faults in California and reflecting on immigrant culture observed in cinema. After immigrating to the US, he bought a Greyhound bus ticket for a planned one-week trip into the heartland, but he ended up staying for months exploring the cornfields, the churches and the collapsed farm towns. “The beauty and the awe was revelatory,” he says. “You have to understand, though, the danger! I could sense it everywhere.” His trip was soon after the horrific homophobic attack and murder of the young Matthew Shepard."