It's a year after Meddy, her mother, and her three overbearing aunties Weekend-at-Bernie's-ed their way through a huge wedding, and now Meddy is staring down the barrel of her own nuptials, which are set to take place in England, home of Meddy's posh soon-to-be in-laws. To be fully prepped for the wedding, the aunties have made sure to take British slang lessons and commissioned "regal" purple gowns with matching hats, complete with Komodo dragons, as well as hiring Indo-Chinese wedding planners to make sure everything goes perfectly on the big day. Unfortunately, when Meddy overhears the photographer talking about "the family" and "taking her out," it seems that the wedding planners may also be connected to the mafia and using the wedding as an opportunity to assassinate a target.
I absolutely loved Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties, which managed to combine Weekend at Bernie's with Crazy Rich Asians and still manage to hit all the dysfunctional family tropes that I love (awkward interactions, overbearing-but-well-meaning relatives, etc). This book, however, was completely unnecessary and didn't hit any of the notes on the Asian diaspora that Sutanto wanted to focus on, according to her foreword. I was unimpressed, and wish I'd just reread Dial A instead.
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