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Ponti, September 2018
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Simon & Schuster
September 2018
On Sale: September 4, 2018
304 pages
ISBN: 1501173111
EAN: 9781501173110
Kindle: B07CMMGXKT
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Literature and Fiction
An award-winning fiction debut about the value of
friendships in present-day Singapore—a surprising and
powerful portrait of Asia that shows the unique blend of
modern and traditional cultures coming together—for fans of
Elena Ferrante and Emma Cline."I am Miss
Frankenstein, I am the bottom of the bell curve." So
declares Szu, a teenager living in a dark, dank house on a
Singapore cul-de-sac, at the beginning of this richly
atmospheric and endlessly surprising tale of non-belonging
and isolation.
Friendless and fatherless, Szu lives
in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful
actress—who gained fame for her portrayal of a ghost—and now
a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty
house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, an
unlikely encounter develops into a fraught friendship that
will haunt them both for decades to come.
With
remarkable emotional acuity, dark comedy, and in vivid
prose, Sharlene Teo's Ponti traces the suffocating
tangle the lives of four misfits, women who need each other
as much as they need to find their own way. It is an
astounding portrayal of the gaping loneliness of
adolescence, the surrealness of the modern city, and the
strangeness of living with and loving other people.
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