Written by Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer's Association, this novel portrays a younger woman's descent into Alzheimer's disease.
Alice Howland, whose life closely resembles Genova's, is a middle-aged psychology professor at Harvard living with her husband in Cambridge when the symptoms of Alzheimer's become to emerge: she becomes increasingly forgetful, disoriented, and eventually cannot recognize her own children.
This book has won several awards and praise for its fictionalized, but compassionate and honest view of the experience of early onset Alzheimer's.
For more information about this book go to http://stillalice.com/
For Lisa Genova's blog at the Alzheimer's Association: http://www.actionalz.blogspot.com/
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