Jesse Q. Sutanto is a Chinese-Indonesian author. As of 2023, she has published nine novels for adults, young adults, and middle grade readers. She is most famous for her novel Dial A for Aunties, which won the 2021 Comedy Women in Print Prize and has been optioned for a film by Netflix.
<p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">“A delightful, hilarious, captivating love letter to Indonesia, and coming of age in a large meddlesome family, and the thrill of finding your person where you least expect it!" –<span style="font-weight: bolder;"> Ali Hazelwood </span>on <em>Well, That Was Unexpected</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to <em>You’ve Got Mail </em>about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she’s never met IRL – until she unwittingly transfers to his school . . .</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can’t help but be totally herself… except when she’s online.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend—a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg—doesn’t know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn’t know his real name either, and it’s not like they’re ever going to cross paths IRL.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">Until she transfers to an elite private school for her senior year and discovers that Sourdawg goes there, too.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 5px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Muli, sans-serif;">But who is he? How will he react when he finds out Kiki’s secret? And what happens when Kiki realizes she’s falling for her online BFF?</p>
