EPISODE FOUR WHAT UP. Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jemimah Wei, the author of the debut The Original Daughter. We talked about ambition and its relationship with resilience and competitiveness. We spoke about the danger of resting in false narratives. We spoke about how raggedy men are. It was fun.More about Jemimah:Jemimah Wei is the author of the highly anticipated THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, New York Times Editors’ Pick, and Indie Next pick. It debuted at #1 on the Straits Times Bestseller list and has been named a best book of Spring 2025 by Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, TIME, Apple Books, and more.She is a 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honouree, a 2022-4 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a 2020 Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University, and a Francine Ringold Award for New Writers honouree. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize and been published in Narrative, Guernica, and Joyland, amongst others. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, recognized by the Best of the Net anthologies, and received scholarships from Singapore’s National Arts Council, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, and Columbia University, where she earned her MFA. She is currently a Senior Prose Editor at The Massachusetts Review.Grab the book here:https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-original-daughter-a-gma-book-club-pick-a-novel-jemimah-wei/b0372d7087e0368c?ean=9780385551014&next=tAdditional books referenced in this episode:Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout:https://bookshop.org/p/books/lucy-by-the-sea-elizabeth-strout/deaed4fa98e8303c?ean=9780593446089&next=tCareless People by Sarah Wynn Williamshttps://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism-sarah-wynn-williams/804251bb5d4b06b3?ean=9781250391230&next=tThe Devil Three Times by Ricky Faynehttps://bookshop.org/p/books/the-devil-three-times-rickey-fayne/4715cbb7a516f200?ean=9780316575171&next=tMadness and Honey Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle https://bookshop.org/p/books/madness-rack-and-honey-collected-lectures-mary-ruefle/3f3f444899bf8a63?ean=9781933517575&next=tCursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaitehttps://bookshop.org/p/books/cursed-daughters-a-novel-oyinkan-braithwaite/7d917cffbf27f6e2?ean=9780385551472&next=t