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Gripping FINANCIAL TIMES The Original Daughter is so much the real deal KAVEH AKBAR I laughed, I wept, I called my mom. Seismic JONATHAN ESCOFFERY Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in...
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A captivating debut novel set in working-class Singapore about an intoxicating relationship between two sisters over two decades
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Gripping FINANCIAL TIMES
The Original Daughter is so much the real deal KAVEH AKBAR
I laughed, I wept, I called my mom. Seismic JONATHAN ESCOFFERY
Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in Bedok, she is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears. At once collaborators and sisters, Gen and Arin grow up inseparable in working-class Singapore - where urgent insistence on achievement demands nothing less than self-immolation. But as the winner-takes-all world threatens to leave one behind while the other's star rises exponentially, the sisters must weigh their allegiances, the costs of success, and reckon with who they've become.
Wei's characters are distinct, colourful, wonderfully flawed OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE
A heartfelt and meticulously written paean to sisterhood SHARLENE TEO
I read in a fever EMILY ITAMI
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781399625593
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 194.0mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Jemimah Wei is the author of The Original Daughter. Born and raised in Singapore, she is now based between Singapore and the United States. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University, where she earned her MFA. A recipient of awards and fellowships from Singapore's National Arts Council, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Writers in Paradise, she was named one of Narrative's '30 below 30' writers, a National Book Award's '5 under 35', and is a Francine Ringold Award for New Writers honouree. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize and appears in Guernica, Narrative and Nimrod amongst others. For close to a decade, Jemimah was a host for various broadcast and digital channels, and has written and produced short films and travel guides for Laneige, Airbnb, and Nikon. This is her first novel.
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