‘Precise, layered and moving,The Original Daughterisa book not to miss’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

WHO WOULD YOU SACRIFICE AT THE ALTAR OF AMBITION? A dazzlingstory of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore byNational Book Award ‘5 Under 35’ honouree Jemimah Wei?
‘I cannot put this damn book down’ ROXANE GAY

‘Wise and wonderful’ PAUL BEATTY

‘Thrilling . . . so much the real deal’ KAVEH AKBAR

‘Seismic’ JONATHAN ESCOFFERY

Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an onlychild. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in Bedok,she is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shamefullegacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead.

At once collaborators and sisters, Gen and Arin grow upinseparable, navigating the intensity of life in working-class Singapore -where urgent insistence on achievement demands self-immolation in the realms ofimagination, work, and play. But as the rapidly modernising, winner-takes-allworld threatens to leave one behind as the other’s star rises exponentially,the sisters must weigh their allegiances and bonds, the cost of success andultimately reckon with who they’ve become. What results is a story that cracksopen the fault lines of Singaporean society, our desperate need for acceptanceand our yearning to be loved.

Vivid and visceral,The Original Daughterisa breathtaking act of empathy by a new literary star.

‘A tour de force that I’ll never forget’ QIAN JULIE WANG

‘I read in a fever’ EMILY ITAMI

‘Heartfelt and meticulously written’ SHARLENE TEO

‘A true literary talent’ TASH AW