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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 Singaporeβa surprising and powerful portrait of Asia that shows the unique blend of modern and traditional cultures coming togetherβfor 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 actressβwho gained fame for her portrayal of a ghostβand now a hack medium performing sΓ©ances 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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