- Published: 1 April 2012
- ISBN: 9780099558521
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $19.99
An Invisible Sign of My Own
- Published: 1 April 2012
- ISBN: 9780099558521
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $19.99
Light as a zephyr and unique as a snowflake
The Washington Post
This mesmerizing novel places a mathematical mind, poet's imagination, and voodoo queen's superstition in an athlete's body and sets to work, in a town stark as a blackboard, on the problem of Death. Pitting axes against angst, kids against cancer, soap against sex, wax numbers against depression, and love against the certainty of the beloved's doom, Aimee Bender nevertheless arrives--with wit, grace, and proof (that math is funny)--at compassion
David James Duncan, author of The Brothers K and River Teeth
Aimee Bender writes in a skillfully minimal way, everything very tight and poignant and sharp and often burning, quick to get to things and out of them, but still providing us with significant characters of emotional depth
Stephen Dixon, author of Frog and 30: Pieces of a Novel
Fantastic! Bender has a perfect pitch. Her stories are fierce and true
LA Times
Incendiary
New York Times Book Review
An achingly idiosyncratic story rendered with eloquence, hilarity, and ominous precision
Boston Globe
Intelligent and engaging ... [A] fanciful and original take on the quietly helter-skelter world that lies within
The New York Times
Clever, original and written with brio and eloquence... Bender writes like an angel, with images that strike resonant chords, and her sly humour pervades every page.
Publishers Weekly