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BOOK
DESCRIPTION: 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. D in
neuroscience from Harvard University.
Alice 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. As confusion starts to cloud
her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she
receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset
Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice
struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the
moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped
away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and
terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable
detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...
Reminiscent of A Beautiful
Mind, Ordinary People and The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,
Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks
the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.
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