In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

“So much the real deal.”
— Kaveh Akbar, bestselling author of the National Book Award nominee Martyr!

“I cannot put this damn book down.”
— Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger

“Seismic.”
— Jonathan Escoffery, international bestselling author of If I Survive You

“Wise and wonderful”
— Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize winner and author of The Sellout

“I did not simply read The Original Daughter; I lived it.”
— Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country

“The debut of a true literary talent.”
— Tash Aw, Man Booker Prize nominee and author of Five Star Billionaire

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 debut, rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight.

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