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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