A teenage girl grapples with her mother’s adolescent fame, and her own feelings of insignificance against the sweltering backdrop of Singapore in 2003.

Sharlene Teo is a Singaporean writer based in the UK. She is the winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award for Ponti, her first novel. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Esquire UK, Magma Poetry, and Eunoia Review. She is the recipient of the 2013 David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship and the 2014 Sozopol Fiction Fellowship. She contributed to Issue 2 of The Second Shelf.

London: Picador, 2018.  291 pages. Hardback. 22.5 x 14.5 x 3. First edition, signed by the author on the title page. Near fine jacket in near fine condition.