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Jemimah Wei

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Author of The Original Daughter, forthcoming Spring 2025 from Doubleday Books (US) and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK).
Reader of Literally Everything.

This is the reason I need glasses.

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I WROTE A BOOK LOL

Sorry, actually, I don't know why I'm laughing. It took forever! And it was so hard! Perhaps I am simply laughing from pure delirium. But I am very proud of it and I cant believe the book I secretly wrote for years and years is now going to be an actual book I can hold, in bookstores and bookshelves all over.

All that to say The Original Daughter will be published by Doubleday Bo Read more of this blog post »

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	The Original Daughter 3.66 avg rating — 5,782 ratings — published 2025 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Belly of the Cat by Stephanie Ye (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul Tan (Contributor), Paul Ruta (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Equatorial Sunshine by Wong Su Ann, Jemimah Wei (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'm struck by our simplistic belief that people and reality could be empirically qualified and thus understood, when it's the inexplicable surplus that makes us who we are.”
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“Love is an action word, I thought. It can be committed, like a crime.”
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“Our lives stretch ahead of us in an unsigned promise. How young we still are, Arin, how careless we’ve been. Stay your heart, wait for me. Let us fail again.”
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
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