Mina Clark is losing her mind—or maybe it’s already gone. She isn’t quite sure. Feeling displaced in her over-priced McMansion-dotted suburban world, she is grappling not only with deep debt, a mostly absent husband, and her playground-terrorizer 3-year old Emma, but also with a significant amnesia she can’t shake—a “temporary” condition now going on several years, brought on by a traumatic event she cannot remember, and which everyone around her feels is best forgotten.
When a trip to the dentist leaves Mina with a new gold crown, her whole life changes. Slowly her memory and her mojo return. But when everything begins to crash down around her, she's not sure if what's happening is real, of if she's just now fully losing her mind... especially when she realizes the only person she can trust is the one she fears the most. What’s it all going to cost her in the end?
After finishing this book I am left with mixed feelings. There were several times throughout the first half that I was really confused, and I get the feeling that that was the point the author was trying to make with Mina's crazy life and stories that weren't matching up, but it was more of a frustrating confusion that made me want to put the book down and pick up a new one...BUT I'm glad that I persevered and finished it because towards the very end everything was revealed and magically worked out for the best (and who doesn't love a book with a happy ending against all odds every now and then?).
The writing was very good with some very creative characters appear throughout the story, and I will definitely be looking at other novels from this writer to give them a go.
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