She can't even broach the subject of leaving home, even though she's twenty-six. Meddy is such a dutiful Asian child that she's a complete pushover. One even busts out in tai chi every time she's stressed, right in the middle of whatever scene.Īnd every character is nothing more than a one-dimensional stereotype taken to the extreme. Even while hiding a dead body, all they care about is filial piety and respecting your elders. The aunties are caricatures of Asian culture, but in their most exaggerated and grating forms. It doesn't help that the treatment of each idea in the book is over-the-top, so it's hard to take any of it seriously.

One moment, Meddy is running around hiding a dead body, then her mom and aunts show up and act overbearing, then she's making out with her ex. But when you put them back-to-back, it doesn't gel into one cohesive story. Each scene, when taken individually, makes sense. The story is crazy right out of the gate, and it just gets more so from there. If you're like 'What?' after reading that, then that about sums up my feelings. Instead, it's more like a mishmash of romance, social commentary about Asian culture, satire/comedy, soap opera, and thriller. Perhaps a cozy mystery because there's a dead body? But no, it definitely wasn't that. I'm not sure what exactly I thought Dial A for Aunties was going to be. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?

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.īut things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love-and biggest heartbreak-makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. 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. 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. You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! 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?

A for aunties