![]() "With grace and compassion, Lisa Genova writes about the enormous white emptiness created by Alzheimer's. "This book is as important as it is impressive, and will grace the lives of those affected by this dread disease for generations to come." "After I read Still Alice, I wanted to stand up and tell a train full of strangers, 'You have to get this book.'" World Book Night 2013 selection Book Reviews D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Top Favorite Books of 2009 by Reading Group Choices 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. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world - forever. At 50 years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. ![]() Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. In 2007, Lisa Genova (born in 1970), an American neuroscientist published a novel in which she described how the early onset of Alzheimers disease changed. ![]()
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