Adult Book of the Month
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Published by Simon and Schuster in 2009
Alice Howland is proud of the life she has worked so
hard to build. A Harvard professor at the height of her career, she has
a successful husband and three grown children. When Alice begins to grow
forgetful at first she just dismisses it, but when she gets lost in her
own neighborhood she realizes that something is terribly wrong. Alice
finds herself in the rapid downward spiral of early onset Alzheimer’s
disease. She is only 50 years old.
While Alice once placed her worth and identity in her celebrated and respected
academic life, now she must re-evaluate her relationship with her husband,
her expectations of her children and her ideas about herself and her place
in the world. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory
begins to fail her, Alice struggles to prevent her life from unravelling
discovering along the way that each day brings a new way of living and
loving. Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple
of frayed threads, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But
she is still Alice.
Told from the perspective of the sufferer, Still Alice is a moving
and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Still Alice is Lisa Genova’s first book.
She holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University and travels
worldwide, speaking about Alzheimer’s Disease, traumatic brain injury,
and autism. Still Alice has spent over 40 weeks on the New
York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 25 languages.
By the same author:
Left Neglected
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