TY - BOOK AU - McMillan, Karen, TI - Brushstokes of memory SN - 9780473374358 PY - 2017/// CY - Auckland PB - McKenzie Publishing KW - Immigrants KW - United States KW - Fiction KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Domestic fiction KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century KW - Romance fiction KW - lcgft N2 - "On her thirty-second birthday, Rebecca is in high spirits. Life could not be better. She adores her husband of seven years, Daniel, a successful musician. She is carving out a reputation as a talented painter after several successful exhibitions. She expects to juggle travel,motherhood and a stellar career in the future. But in 2003 she wakes in a hospital after a head injury and finds out that nine years, nine months and nineteen days of her life are erased from her memory. Now nearly forty two she can't remember anything after her thirty second birthday, a decade fraught with changes she never would have anticipated. Illness,infidelity and betrayal, separation and death and the disintegration of many of her dreams." ER -