{"product_id":"book-cm6h","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347195044144,"sku":"BDcm6h","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49347195076912,"sku":"10cm6h","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/294082-cm6h-Square.jpg?v=1734194661","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cm6h","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}