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An Invisible Sign of My Own

by Aimee Bender
$11.90
An Invisible Sign of My Own
An Invisible Sign of My Own

For lovers of odd minds and tender magic

This feels perfect if you like literary fiction that is strange, delicate, and emotionally sharp without losing its warmth. Mona’s number-obsessed inner world is wonderfully peculiar, but what really stays with you is how gently the novel explores fear, control, and the mess of wanting connection. It has that dreamy Aimee Bender quality where everything feels slightly enchanted and deeply human at once.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

An Invisible Sign of My Own

by Aimee Bender
$11.90
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ISBN: 9780385492232
Authors: Aimee Bender
Publisher: Doubleday
Date of Publication: 2000-07-18
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Fantasy
Related Topics: Literature, Magical Realism
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 4715 readers)

Description

An Invisible Sign of My Own is a collection of stories by American writer Aimee Bender. It centers on Mona Gray, a twenty-year-old second-grade math teacher who lives under the shadow of her father's long, unnamed illness and her own compulsions. She excels at music, running, and sex, but ceases each activity just as enjoyment arrives. Mona is "in love with quitting." Numbers provide the order and beauty she craves, and she converts her classroom into "a beautiful museum of numbers." When a new science teacher arrives—bearing burn marks on his fingers and a gift for teaching children the joys of coughing—Mona's meticulously orderly world is threatened by love, the supreme disorder. Bender's luminous, precise prose imagines a dreamlike world that probes the depths of desire, fear, and the human heart.
 

For lovers of odd minds and tender magic

This feels perfect if you like literary fiction that is strange, delicate, and emotionally sharp without losing its warmth. Mona’s number-obsessed inner world is wonderfully peculiar, but what really stays with you is how gently the novel explores fear, control, and the mess of wanting connection. It has that dreamy Aimee Bender quality where everything feels slightly enchanted and deeply human at once.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.