Close Read: An Invisible Mark of Mine by Aimee Bender For much of her life, Mona Gray has lived a strange life after her father contracted an unknown disease . Mona quickly becomes a quitter, and although she excels at many things, she always forces herself to quit. All this changes when Benjamin Smith, the new science teacher, arrives. With his eccentric ways he can see through Mona when most people don't, including her family. Mona's perfect little world is threatened when she meets love and her soulmate, Benjamin Smith. The two most interesting pages of this novel, An Invisible Sign Of My Own by Aimee Bender, were pages 221 and 222. These pages were really interesting. because for the first time Mona shows some characteristics that have not been seen in this novel. For example, the first paragraph on page 221 begins with an intimate moment between Mona Gray and Benjamin Smith. In this scene, Mona describes kissing Benjamin's wounds, "there's no part of him that I find better than the burns up and down his arms and I kiss them again and again"."(221).