{"product_id":"book-talk-the-original-daughter-by-jemimah-wei","title":"Book Talk | The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003ePre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBefore Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the two girls grow closer, they must navigate the intensity of life in a place where the urgent insistence on achievement demands constant sacrifice. Knowing that failure is not an option, the sisters learn to depend entirely on one another as they spurn outside friendships, leisure, and any semblance of a social life in pursuit of academic perfection and passage to a better future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a stinging betrayal violently estranges Genevieve and Arin, Genevieve must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love, home versus the outside world, and allegiance to herself versus allegiance to the people who made her who she is. In the story of a family and its contention with the roiling changes of our rapidly modernizing, winner-take-all world, \u003ci\u003eThe Original Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a major literary debut, rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJemimah Wei \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born and raised in Singapore and splits her time between Singapore and the United States. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, is a winner of the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, and formerly held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship at Stanford University and Columbia University, respectively. Her highly anticipated debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Original Daughter,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e debuted at #1 on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Straits Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestseller list and is a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e Good Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Book Club pick and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEditors’ Choice. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Original Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Country Award Winner of the Chommanard International Women's Literary Award, was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and was named a Best Book of Spring by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and more.  \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descriptionPanel___wCiv7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panelContent___B_vGb\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIN CONVERSATION WITH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panelContent___B_vGb\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panelContent___B_vGb\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--darkaccent\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVANESSA CHAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--darkaccent\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--darkaccent\"\u003eis the Malaysian author of the internationally bestselling novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--darkaccent\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/The-Storm-We-Made\/Vanessa-Chan\/9781668015148\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003eTHE STORM WE MADE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--accent\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--darkaccent\"\u003e a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and named best book of the year by NPR, Amazon, Elle, Goodreads, and more — about the unlikeliest of spies — a discontent mother and wife in 1930s British Malaya who, in becoming a spy for the Japanese, unwittingly ushers in the most violent war her country has ever seen. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Storm We Made\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"m_-3977860860951757216gmail-sqsrte-text-color--darkaccent\"\u003e has been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yu \u0026 Me Books","offers":[{"title":"Book w\/Ticket","offer_id":52791471833317,"sku":"Jemimah Wei Event 10.8.26","price":20.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"FREE RSVP","offer_id":52791471866085,"sku":"Jemimah Wei Event 10.8.26","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/2581\/1941\/files\/10.08.26JemimahWei.png?v=1788891912","url":"https:\/\/yuandmebooks.com\/products\/book-talk-the-original-daughter-by-jemimah-wei","provider":"Yu \u0026 Me Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}