The Original Daughter: A Novel by Jemimah Wei holiday and Nena worries she’ll end

and Nena worries she’ll end up like the scary old curandera down the street

They are young

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blank like a sheet of notebook paper

to make her self-proclaimed sad

The Original Daughter: A Novel by Jemimah Wei holiday and Nena worries she’ll endBefore 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,