‘Masterly . . . tender, surprising and immersive’ IRISH TIMES

‘Gripping’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘The Original Daughter is so much the real deal’ KAVEH AKBAR

‘I laughed, I wept, I called my mom. 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. At once collaborators and sisters, Gen and Arin grow up inseparable in working-class Singapore – where urgent insistence on achievement demands nothing less than self-immolation. But as the winner-takes-all world threatens to leave one behind while the other’s star rises exponentially, the sisters must weigh their allegiances, the costs of success, and reckon with who they’ve become.

‘Wei’s characters are distinct, colourful, wonderfully flawed’ OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE

‘A heartfelt and meticulously written paean to sisterhood’ SHARLENE TEO

‘I read in a fever’ EMILY ITAMI