The Original Daughter

´Precise, layered and moving, The Original Daughter is a book not to miss´ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW WHO WOULD YOU SACRIFICE AT THE ALTAR OF AMBITION? A dazzling story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore by National 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 only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in Bedok, she is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. At once collaborators and sisters, Gen and Arin grow up inseparable, navigating the intensity of life in working-class Singapore - where urgent insistence on achievement demands self-immolation in the realms of imagination, work, and play. But as the rapidly modernising, winner-takes-all world threatens to leave one behind as the other´s star rises exponentially, the sisters must weigh their allegiances and bonds, the cost of success and ultimately reckon with who they´ve become. What results is a story that cracks open the fault lines of Singaporean society, our desperate need for acceptance and our yearning to be loved. Vivid and visceral, The Original Daughter is a 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