Alice becomes fearful that something is medically wrong with her.

One day when she goes out for a run, she becomes confused and panicky after she doesn’t recognize the street she’s running on, even though she’s lived in that area of downtown Boston for many years. We join her as she starts to get a little forgetful, nothing too serious – she loses things and occasionally words “are on the tip of her tongue” but then she gets lost just around the corner from home. Alice Howland loves her job at Harvard University, she loves to run and travel, and she loves her husband and her three grown children. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what’s it’s like to literally lose your mind.Īlice is 50, a respected Professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard University, extremely happily married and a much loved mother.

As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease.įiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.Īlice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman’s sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer’s disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. Theme: Ambition and Success, Loss of Identity, Illness, Marriage, and Family, Alzheimer’s, Quality of Life, and Happiness

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