{"product_id":"2940170809486","title":"Ponti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning fiction debut about the value of friendships in present-day Singaporeamp;mdash;a surprising and powerful portrait of Asia that shows the unique blend of modern and traditional cultures coming togetheramp;mdash;for fans of Elena Ferrante and Emma Cline.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriendless and fatherless, Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actressamp;mdash;who gained fame for her portrayal of a ghostamp;mdash;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105185480944,"sku":"2940170809486","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170809486_p0.jpg?v=1763718334","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170809486","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}