RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP

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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. Show more