The Original Daughter

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By Jemimah Wei In the story of a family and its contention with the roiling changes of our rapidly modernizing, winner-take-all world, The Original Daughter is a major literary deb ut, rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight. Format: Paperback- The Original Daughter is a literary debut set in working-class Singapore about an intoxicating relationship between two sisters over two decades. Without warning, Genevieve Yang’s life is upended one night when her grandfather’s secret second family deposits a terrified child into their lives. This new interloper, Arin, causes ripples within the family but is cautiously welcomed by Gen, and the girls soon become deeply entwined. Yet, as the sisters struggle toward individual redemption in a rapidly modernising and brutally competitive environment where academic achievement and personal excellence are prized above all else, they must fight to hold onto each other even as circumstances force them to reinvent themselves over and over again.About the authorJemimah Wei is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from Columbia University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Singapore’s National Arts Council, and more. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been published in Guernica and Narrative, amongst others. More can be found on her website and socials: https://jemmawei.com/ and @jemmawei. Show more