A Professional Lola

<p><em>A Professional Lola</em> 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. <em>A Professional Lola</em> embodies the joy mystery humor sadness hunger and family that inhabit modern-day Filipino American virtues.</p>