Ponti Unfinished and learning how to feed

and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself

Lies upon lies

but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty

This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder

Ponti Unfinished and learning how to feedRemarkable Ian McEwan Shortlisted for Hearst's Big Book Award 2018. Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore, Sharlene Teo's Ponti begins as sixteen year olds Szu and Circe develop an intense friendship. For Szu, it offers an escape from Amisa, her beautiful, cruel mother once an actress, and now the silent occupant of a rusty house. But for Circe, their friendship does the opposite, bringing her one step closer to the fascinating, unknowable