The original daughter : a novel / Jemimah Wei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wei, Jemimah, author.

Series:

Good morning America book club

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Singapore--Fiction.

Singapore.

Genre:

Novels.

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

354 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First Doubleday hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, 2025.

Summary:

"Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Singapore, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the girls grow closer, they must navigate the intensity of life in a brutally competitive place where the insistence on achievement demands constant sacrifice. The sisters become inextricably bound as they spurn outside friendships, leisure, and any semblance of a social life in pursuit of academic perfection and passage to a better future. When a stinging betrayal violently estranges the sisters, Genevieve must weight 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 this 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, imbued with equal parts emotional clarity and searing social insight." -- Front jacket flap.

Notes:

"A GMA book club pick!"

ISBN:

9780385551014

0385551010

OCLC:

1438926469