{"product_id":"ponti-sharlene-teo-9781501173127","title":"Ponti","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning novel about the value of friendships in present-day Singapore--a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003estirring debut...relatable yet unsettling [that] smartly captures earnest teenage myopathy through a tumultuous high school relationship\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I am Miss Frankenstein, I am the bottom of the bell curve.\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFriendless 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 s饌nces 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith remarkable emotional acuity, dark comedy, and in vivid prose, Sharlene Teo's \u003ci\u003ePonti\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \"at once a subtle critique of the pressures of living in a modern Asian metropolis; a record of the swiftness and ruthlessness with which Southeast Asia has changed over the last three decades; a portrait of the old juxtaposed with the new (and an accompanying dialogue between nostalgia and cynicism); an exploration of the relationship between women against the backdrop of social change; and, occasionally, a love story--all wrapped up in the guise of a teenage coming-of-age novel...Teo is brilliant\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharlene Teo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150117312X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501173127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Sharlene Teo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979754078463,"sku":"9781501173127","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da3dcc87-7d2a-4633-8e46-4e661aa623e0.jpg?v=1683246779","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ponti-sharlene-teo-9781501173127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}