Remember Jemimah Wei? Hint: ACWP Practitioners Conference 😉 Her upcoming novel, The Original Daughter, is now open for preorder! (And guess what? She even workshopped part of it at an ACWP workshop back in 2021) Pre-order your copy now before it hits shelves May 2025! Our heartiest congratulations to Jemimah for this literary feat!
About The Original Daughter:
Singapore, 1996. Genevieve Yang is an only child, living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in Bedok, when her grandfather rises from the dead. Long disappeared, he had a secret second family in Malaysia, who now suddenly deposits Arin, an unwanted daughter, into their home. Gen and Arin grow up as sisters, older and younger, entwined with each other as they navigate the intensity of life in a working-class family in a place where insistence on achievement demands constant sacrifice in the realms of imagination and play. As childhood and adolescence layer new experiences onto their lives, Gen and Arin must reinvent themselves time and again. As the sisters struggle toward individual redemption, we see the fault lines of Singaporean society, human pride and our desperate need for acceptance and security, our yearning to be loved.
About Jemimah Wei:
Born and raised in Singapore, Jemimah is now based between Singapore and the United States. She earned her BA and MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
