 Antonio Enriquez's novel depicts the lives of the Subanons in Mindanao at the height of the

government's military campaign against the NPAs. The Subanons are not merely caught in
this crossfire; they are singled out as the primary casualties of war. Their days are fraught with
a violence against which their only recourse are their values and their gods.

 Nudes deals with forms of attention and loss, affliction and closures, in love. In 38 poems that
exhibit his mastery of formal and colloquial measures, De Ungria lays bare an
unprecedented range of tonality and complexity as he explores the obsessions and
contradictions in the discourse of desire and achieves a delicate balance between
toughness and tenderness, presence and shadow, argument and sleep, will and silence.

 Abi Nako, or So I Thought is a collection of essays Joy wrote about love - her pursuit of love
from men and women, her love for her children, her love for this country, her pained love
story with her mother, her love for words and their meanings.

 Crying Mountain is a retelling of an important, tragic chapter in the decades-old conflict in

Mindanao: the burning of Jolo in 1974. It reimagines the rise of Moro National Liberation Front
leader Nur Misuari, and the Philippine military’s violent crackdown on the rebellion he led.
Crying Mountain was partly inspired by a declassified copy she obtained of the military’s
official report on the campaign in Jolo, a document that also brought back memories of her
years growing up in nearby Zamboanga.

 According to a review from MindaNews, The O Susana book is truly a powerful weapon
against deception and forgetting. Reading the stories, I immediately saw their historical value
in showing, on the one hand, the arbitrariness and brutality of the Marcos Dictatorship (1972-
1986), and on the other hand, the silent courage of church and ordinary folks in Mindanao in
defying Martial Law. These are stories of people who chose to work aboveground when
Martial Law was declared, as distinguished from those who worked underground or fought in
the countryside.