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Book Review: Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter is the quintessential Singaporean novel
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The Original Daughter is Jemimah Wei's debut novel, and took the author a decade to publish.
PHOTOS: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, TARYN NG
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By Jemimah Wei
Fiction/Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Paperback/368 pages/$33.95
There are debuts and then there are Debuts. The latter arrives in your hands fully formed and properly lived-in, the product of years of accrued experience and vivid, independent thought.
