Dial A for Aunties
"Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible arrest and a groomzilla. I laughed out loud and you will too."--USA Today (four-star review) "A hilarious, heartfelt romp of a novel about--what else?--accidental murder and the bond of family. This book had me laughing aloud within its first five pages... Utterly clever, deeply funny, and altogether charming, this book is sure to be one of the best of the year!"--Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read
One of NPR's Best Books of 2021! One of PopSugar's "42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021"! What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business--"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"--and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers. But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love--and biggest heartbreak--makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?
One of NPR's Best Books of 2021! One of PopSugar's "42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021"! What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business--"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"--and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers. But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love--and biggest heartbreak--makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?
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Big yikes on this one. I want to be fair so I will say that the teaser I read wasn’t totally my cup of tea, so I went into this trusting a buzz feed quiz that told me I would like this even though when I read the summary I wasn’t so sure. I should have trusted my gut. I really enjoyed the cultural aspect of this, but the story was way too outlandish for me to suspend my disbelief. I would read and be like “there is no way I can believe this happened.” The book is too grounded in reality to make the far-fetched plot work. Then there is the love interest. Honestly, it suffers from the same problem: it’s just not believable. She dumps you for no good reason and totally breaks your heart and never tells her family you exist and you’re just ready to jump right back into it? Hmmmm. Ok so anyway, there is a lot happening here and it just didn’t do it for me. No hate to this book- it just wasn’t for me.
Fun and unexpected read.
This hilarious “How are we gonna get away with it” story is a sheer delight. Dial A for Aunties plays out like a telanovela, with just the right balance of realism and absurdity to keep you laughing and curious for what the next page will hold.
Jesse Q. Sutano humorously and compassionately approaches the impact of generational differences and cultural expectations and self discovery within a tight knit family. Additionally, the friendships and loves lost/rekindled and wedding-gone-wild subplots make it easy to forget that this -is- a story about getting away with “murder”. I think I can safely say this is the coziest crime novel I’ve ever read.
I will say as for content warning there is some near-SA on the front end of the book.
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