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A Professional Lola is a collection of short stories that blend literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family, and identity. A family hires an actress to play their beloved grandmother at a party; a couple craving Filipino food rob a panaderya; a coven of Filipino witches cast a spell on their husbands; a Lolo transforms into a Lola. These are just a few of the stories in the collection that represent its roster of stories beautifully grounded in culture and vividly and meticulously painted to make the absurd seem mundane and the commonplace, sinister. A Professional Lola embodies the joy, mystery, humor, sadness, hunger, and family that inhabit modern-day Filipino American virtues.
Featured in the Shelf Unbound list of 2024 Indie Summer Reads
“Tuazon has a talent for merging the strangeness of the world with the emotional impact of human connectivity.”—Rebecca Rubenstein, Senior Editor for The Rumpus
“E.P. Tuazon’s unique voice captures the essence of the Filipino diaspora—the ambivalence and aches, the hopes and aspirations, but also the humor and delights.”—Cindy Fazzi, Author of My MacArthur and Multo
“Brightly evocative, clever, and sincere, Tuazon’s third work of fiction continues to chart a promising path forward." —Kirkus Review
"... the stories in A Professional Lola [are] a poignant reflection on the playful highs and somber lows of modern Filipino American culture." —Frankie Martinez, Soapberry Review
"E.P. Tuazon's collection of short stories A Professional Lola is a poignant, sly examination of their diasporic Filipino American community, told through interactions with extended family, intimate friends, and adoptive/adaptive cultural clashes, and, of course, delectable food."—Terry Hong, Shelf Awareness