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When she gets a job as the math teacher at an elementary school, she discovers she has an unorthodox talent for teaching and finds herself thrust back into life. But when sevenyearold lisa appears with a zero that displays real turmoil, mona knows that in order to help a person in pain, she needs to find a way to connect with the world she has been afraid of for so long. In an invisible sign of my own, aimee bender exceeds her early promise. An invisible sign of my own by aimee bender the ax for the. Written with the same eloquence and flair that characterisesthe particular sadness of lemon cake, this novel marks the sign of a unique talent in. An invisible sign of my own seattle public library. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages.
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