A Professional Lola

Copyright © 2024 by E. P. Tuazon

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No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.

This book is the Winner of the 2022 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. AWP is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving American letters, writers, and programs of writing. AWP’s headquarters are at Riverdale Park, Maryland.

Book design by Mark E. Cull

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tuazon, E. P., 1986– author.

Title: A professional Lola: and other stories / E.P. Tuazon.

Description: Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2024.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023040156 (print) | LCCN 2023040157 (ebook) | ISBN 9781636281186 (paperback) | ISBN 9781636281193 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Filipino Americans—Fiction. | LCGFT: Short stories.

Classification: LCC PS3620.U24 P76 2024 (print) | LCC PS3620.U24 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20231113

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023040156

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023040157

The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Adams Family Foundation, the Riordan Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.

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