Jemimah Wei is the GMA Book Club Pick!

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter is the GMA book club pick for May, and we loved it. In some ways, this book is not just a compelling family drama, but it is also a thoughtful depiction of Singapore, a country often misunderstood by Americans as being simply a home for glamour and high tech discovery. This novel centers around the lives of everyday Singaporeans, and how one family is torn apart when a new daughter is introduced to the home by way of a grandfather’s polygamy. Why did this book take Jemimah ten years to write and how does this story put a new twist on the clichés of sibling rivalry? We ask her, so tune in and find out. Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's episode: The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones The Dutch House by Ann Patchett This is What Inequality Looks Like by Youyenn Teo The South by Tash Aw The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.0	As far as the senior citizens are concerned, it is a great time to be silver.
0:49.8	As they say, I'm Charlie Gibson of the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.
0:55.7	I'm Kate Gibson. So we give a big vitamin salute to the seniors, but we don't have much to say the little kids.
1:02.1	It's a great day to have a Flintstone's vitamin. Let's go with that, since we're covering the whole spectrum of age.
1:08.1	I am Kate, and we are so happy to have you back this week, or for the first time.
1:12.2	We are indeed. We are delighted to be in concert this week with the Good Morning America Book Club. They have chosen, we have chosen, the original daughter, written by
1:18.4	Jemima Way, W-E-I. The Good Morning America Book Club has such good taste that they've chosen the book
1:25.0	that we wanted to feature this week. Yeah, no, absolutely. I feel like there are a lot of book clubs out there. So I almost feel like
1:31.9	our listeners, we should say to our listeners, we know you have a choice of a lot of book clubs
1:35.5	out there, but we highly recommend the Good Morning American Book Club, and we're so glad you
1:39.6	flew with us today. It's a really, it's a book that opened my eyes. I have to admit that I am an American
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