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SUMMARY:Book Talk | The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \n\nIn this dazzling debut\, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. \nBefore 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\, the sisters learn to depend entirely on one another as they spurn outside friendships\, leisure\, and any semblance of a social life in pursuit of academic perfection and passage to a better future. \nWhen a stinging betrayal violently estranges Genevieve and Arin\, Genevieve must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love\, home versus the outside world\, and allegiance to herself versus allegiance to the people who made her who she is. In the story of a family and its contention with the roiling changes of our rapidly modernizing\, winner-take-all world\, The Original Daughter is a major literary debut\, rife with emotional clarity and searing social insight. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJemimah Wei was born and raised in Singapore and splits her time between Singapore and the United States. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree\, is a winner of the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize\, and formerly held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship at Stanford University and Columbia University\, respectively. Her highly anticipated debut novel\, The Original Daughter\, debuted at #1 on The Straits Times bestseller list and is a Good Morning America Book Club pick and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. The Original Daughter is a Country Award Winner of the Chommanard International Women’s Literary Award\, was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award\, and was named a Best Book of Spring by TIME\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Elle\, Vogue\, and more. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nVanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of the internationally bestselling novel THE STORM WE MADE\, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick\, BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick\, New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and named best book of the year by NPR\, Amazon\, Elle\, Goodreads\, and more — about the unlikeliest of spies — a discontent mother and wife in 1930s British Malaya who\, in becoming a spy for the Japanese\, unwittingly ushers in the most violent war her country has ever seen. The Storm We Made has been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-the-original-daughter-by-jemimah-wei/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Gather Around My Table with Kay Chun
DESCRIPTION:Where does a great recipe come from? For Kay Chun\, it’s all about inspiration. And to a lifelong New Yorker\, inspiration is all around. Drawing from a global pantry of ingredients—the Korean influences she grew up with and the many flavors that have shaped her—she shares fresh yet familiar dishes the whole family will love in her debut cookbook\, Gather Around My Table. \nIn her conversation with Eric Kim\, Kay Chun will discuss her career and her debut cookbook.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/gather-around-my-table-with-kay-chun/
LOCATION:The Korea Society\, 350 Madison Avenue\, 24th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10017
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Food
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