The first section is titled “Girl Meets Boy (There might be insta-love and also someone might die. The novel is divided up into three sections. Meddelin secretly applies to Columbia and gets in, but she burns the letter and goes to UCLA instead to stay near her family. As the only girl of her generation, Meddelin feels obligated to stay at home with her Ma and three aunts, who have lost all their husbands and sons. The novel starts with a prologue subtitled “Eight Years Ago.” Meddelin says that her family is cursed so that the men always leave. Sutanto’s Dial A For Aunties is narrated in first-person present by the protagonist, Meddelin Chan. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Sutanto, Jesse Q.
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