An Invisible Sign of My Own
Author: Aimee Bender
An Invisible Sign of my Own is the story of Mona, a young woman obsessed with numbers, whose life is becoming overrun by bizarre compulsions. She lands a job as a primary school maths teacher, and creates a ‘beautiful museum of numbers’ where anything – a child, a brooch, a jelly, an amputated arm – has deeper meanings. Then she meets the science teacher, who has burns on….Read More
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