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The Original Daughter: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

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.

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Published May 6, 2025

368 pages

Average rating: 6.89

19 RATINGS

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Margie Pettersen
Oct 27, 2025
4/10 stars
I was not impressed with this book at all. It is a story of two sisters and their relationship. There is a falling out and eventual reconciliation when the two daughters met at their dying mother's bedside. Arin is an actor in YouTube videos and an influencer. The older sister, Gen, was a serious student, but never qualified for university and ended up in dead-end job working at an ice cream store. Later, she gets a job in New Zealand. She confides her experience of an uncomfortable encounter with a man and is crestfallen when her sister reenacts this in one of her films. Arin is the cousin who came to live with her family when she was just a little girl. She was the daughter of her father's brother.

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