Ponti / Sharlene Teo.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 294 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501173110
- 1501173111
- 9781501173127
- 150117312X
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
""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." -- Provided by publisher.
Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress, and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, who is working on a remake of the cult horror film series, Ponti, that made Szu's mother career. Their unlikely encounter develops into a fraught friendship that will haunt them both for decades to come. -- adapted from jacket