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- A Professional Lola embodies the joy, mystery, humor, sadness, hunger, and family that inhabit modern-day Filipino American virtues.
- Author(s): E P Tuazon
- 208 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Family Life
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A Professional Lola embodies the joy, mystery, humor, sadness, hunger, and family that inhabit modern-day Filipino American virtues.
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A Professional Lola embodies the joy, mystery, humor, sadness, hunger, and family that inhabit modern-day Filipino American virtues.
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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
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