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Author Jesse Q. Sutanto turns her mother into a mystery heroine in new book
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Jesse Q. Sutanto's new novel follows Vera Wong, a “lady of a certain age” who finds a dead body in her San Francisco tea shop.
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SINGAPORE – Indonesian-Chinese author Jesse Q. Sutanto turned her mother into the titular heroine of her latest novel, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers.
Over a Zoom call from Jakarta, the 37-year-old writer of Dial A For Aunties (2021) says: “She’s very happy about it and she thinks people need to know it’s based on her and that she should get credit.”
