Meddy is an adorable heroine, loyal to her mother and aunts even while the women compete to be recognized as the most clever in the family. The real owner is Meddy’s old college boyfriend, Nathan-and the spark is still between them.ĭial A for Aunties is a hoot, a mash-up of Crazy Rich Asians and Weekend at Bernies.

And the icing on the cake-Meddy’s murder victim wasn’t the hotel owner after all. Now they have to dispose of the body while dealing with the over-the-top bride and groom and their families, friends, and attendants. But the cooler ends up going to the wedding with them. They stash the body in a cooler, planning to deal with it after that weekend’s wedding of the century. Convinced the police will never believe he attacked her, she drives home with the body in the trunk and asks her family for help. Unfortunately, the guy’s a creep and when he drives Meddy down a deserted road, she tases him and he crashes the car. When she finds out he’s the owner of the resort hotel where they’re working a wedding that weekend, things perk up. Now a wedding photographer in the family business and perennially single, Meddy is chagrined to learn her mother impersonated her on a dating web site… and now she has to go on a date and pretend she’s been chatting with the guy. The husbands have left her male cousins moved across the country, but Meddy is a loyal daughter. Sutanto’s new book Dial A for Aunties (movie rights optioned by Netflix), Meddy Chan has made every life decision in deference to her mother and her mother’s three sisters-where to go to college, where to work, even to give up her college boyfriend rather than choosing him over them.

For people who grew up in Jewish, Italian, Asian and other homes led by involved, overprotective mothers, the helicopters have been hovering for decades. But helicopter parents did not suddenly burst into being in the 1990s. As parents, we Generation Xers are the first cohort to be disparaged as being “helicopter parents” just because we did things like help our kids with their homework and sign them up for afterschool activities so they didn’t come home to an empty house like we did.

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