How many times have you joked about loving someone so much that you’d help them hide a body (or at least, argue with them about how best to do it, like Meddy’s mum: “We just don’t bury body now. The Chan family’s super-intimacy can be suffocating, but – as our protagonist learns – there’s literally nothing her relatives wouldn’t do for her. “And what’s really funny is that I received a lot of DMs from people from other cultures too – Jamaican readers, Indian readers, Middle Eastern readers, have been messaging me like, ‘Oh my God, this is what my aunties are like!’”. “I’ve received so many emails from Chinese-Indonesian readers who are like, how did you get this footage of my family?” Sutanto laughs. At its humorous heart, Dial A for Aunties is a love story – but as the book’s title (and reader feedback) suggests, it’s Meddy’s aunts who steal the show. Meanwhile, Meddy is thrown back into the orbit of her long-lost college boyfriend Nathan who happens to be running the resort where the wedding is taking place. When Meddy’s well-meaning mother Ma impersonates her on a dating app, she ends up dealing with a corpse rather than cooing over a new son-in-law.
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