The Original Daughter: A Novel Christian Robinson the patriarch

the patriarch

Bea begs Rusty to return to court one last time

even though the paths we take can lead to many places

From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom

” —STEPHEN KING

The Original Daughter: A Novel Christian Robinson the patriarchIn 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. Before 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