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First Fiction 2025 Virtual Reading

First Fiction 2025: Debut Author Reading and Celebration

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In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers Magazine features editor India Lena González introduces the five debut authors featured in “First Fiction 2025”: Sarah Yahm, author of Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation (Dzanc Books, 2025); Jon Hickey, author of Big Chief (Simon & Schuster, 2025); Carrie R. Moore, author of Make Your Way Home (Tin House Books, 2025); Aaron John Curtis, author of Old School Indian (Hillman Grad Books, 2025); and Jemimah Wei, author of The Original Daughter (Doubleday, 2025).

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Jemimah Wei: The Original Daughter

Jemimah Wei with R.O. Kwon: The Original Daughter

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In this Green Apple Books event, Jemimah Wei reads from her debut novel, The Original Daughter (Doubleday, 2025), and talks about her desire to write about two ambitious girls growing up in modern Singapore in a conversation with R. O. Kwon. “What I tell people about this book is that I’ve always thought it of as a love story, but like a really unromantic love story.”

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The Original Daughter