RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP
In “Ice,” two men contemplate their future in a bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape: “The point is, there is no point. You just keep going. Even if there’s no point.” In Dumaguete, a young boy must become his mother’s protector: it nearly tears him apart. In the title story, a ship captain discovers a city on the ocean floor and finds himself grappling with the notion of moral responsibility. Clear-eyed and lacerating, Marianne Villanueva’s RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP imagines human nature at moments of extremity. Vulnerable and challenged as most of these characters are, there is no denying their tenacity or capacity to endure.
In “Ice,” two men contemplate their future in a bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape: “The point is, there is no point. You just keep going. Even if there’s no point.” In Dumaguete, a young boy must become his mother’s protector: it nearly tears him apart. In the title story, a ship captain discovers a city on the ocean floor and finds himself grappling with the notion of moral responsibility. Clear-eyed and lacerating, Marianne Villanueva’s RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP imagines human nature at moments of extremity. Vulnerable and challenged as most of these characters are, there is no denying their tenacity or capacity to endure.
In “Ice,” two men contemplate their future in a bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape: “The point is, there is no point. You just keep going. Even if there’s no point.” In Dumaguete, a young boy must become his mother’s protector: it nearly tears him apart. In the title story, a ship captain discovers a city on the ocean floor and finds himself grappling with the notion of moral responsibility. Clear-eyed and lacerating, Marianne Villanueva’s RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP imagines human nature at moments of extremity. Vulnerable and challenged as most of these characters are, there is no denying their tenacity or capacity to endure.
About MARIANNE VILLANUEVA
Marianne Villanueva was born and raised in the Philippines, received a creative writing fellowship from Stanford University, and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first story collection, Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, was a finalist for the Philippines' National Book Award. Her second, Mayor of the Roses, was the inaugural publication of the Miami University Press Fiction Series. Problems with Sleep, her fifth collection, is forthcoming from Betty Books in 2026. She is writing a novel, White Sails, Green Oceans, about a 16th-century Spanish priest who is sent to the Philippines to fight demons.
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Genre: Fiction (Short stories)
ISBN: 978-1-956692-93-8
Publication Date: August 19, 2025
