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An Instant #1 Straits Times Bestseller, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, and a New York Times Editors’ Pick. Longlisted for the Chommanard International Women’s Award and nominated for the Dublin Literary Award.

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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