A Professional Lola
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.
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E. P. Tuazon is a Filipino American writer from Los Angeles. They have work in several publications such as The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Peatsmoke, and Five South. His work was chosen by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2022 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. They are currently a member of Advintage Press and The Blank Page Writing Club at The Open Book, Canyon Country. In their spare time, they like to go to Filipino seafood markets to gossip with the crabs. Tuazon currently resides in Valencia, California.
"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
