Book after Book

Welcome to the blog tour for The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei! More about the book… Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother  in a single-room flat in Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin  appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. Gen and Arin grow up as sisters in Singapore: a place where insistence on achievement  demands constant sacrifice in the realms of imagination and play. As the sister’s struggle  toward individual redemption, their story reveals the fault lines of Singaporean society,  our desperate need for acceptance, and our yearning to be loved. Vivid and visceral, The Original Daughter is a breathtaking act of empathy by a new  literary star. More about the author… Jemimah Wei was born and raised in Singapore and is currently a 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the recipient of ...

Welcome to the blog tour for The In-Between Bookstore  by Edward Underhill! More about the book… If you had one chance to talk to your younger self… would you? What would you say? A healing novel about a trans man in New York who - almost 30, laid off, broke - moves back to his small Illinois hometown. Darby left Oak Falls, Illinois years ago, hoping to find a community and to leave behind the memory of his childhood best friend, Michael, and the painful way their friendship ended. He walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school and feels an eerie sense of déjà vu – everything is exactly the same. Even the newspapers are dated 2009. And behind the till is a teen who looks a lot like Darby did at sixteen... a teen who just might give him the opportunity to change his own present for the better – if he can figure out how before his connection to the past vanishes forever. More about the author… Edward Underhill grew up in the suburbs of Wisconsin, where he coul...