An Invisible Sign of My Own - Softcover

Bender, Aimee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385492243 ISBN 13: 9780385492249

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

Aimee Bender's stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise.

Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can't stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. When Mona begins teaching math to second-graders, she finds a ready audience. But the difficult and wonderful facts of life keep intruding. She finds herself drawn to the new science teacher, who has an unnerving way of seeing through her intricately built façade. Bender brilliantly directs her characters, giving them unexpected emotional depth and setting them in a calamitous world, both fancifully surreal and startlingly familiar.

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Review:

"Intelligent and engaging... [A] fanciful and original take on the quietly helter-skelter world that lies within."-The New York Times

"Light as a zephyr and unique as a snowflake."- The Washington Post

"An achingly idiosyncratic story...rendered...with eloquence, hilarity, and ominous precision."-The Boston Globe

Book Description:

An incandescent first novel by a star of the new American fiction scene.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385492243
• ISBN 13: 9780385492249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258