In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the … 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 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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I could really relate to this book, because my mother is living with this awful disease. There were so many similarities between my mother and Alice. I really thought her progression was moving quickly, but it is just all part of the disease. I know this book is supposed to be “fiction”, but there is a lot of truth to what is in between these …
great book about a special woman and her take on a terrible disease.
It was very well written, informative
Everyone should read this book. Any one of us may be there someday.
A great resource for understanding Alzheimer’s.
Scary disease
If you have had experience with Dementia of any kind in your family, this story will break your heart. I have, and it did.
The best book on Alzheimer. Emphasized that the victim is not to be dismissed
Book follows a highly educated woman who is diagnosed with early onset alzheimers who designs a test she takes each day to ascertain the progression of
the stages of alzheimers as she lives her life.
Great book.
Still Alice by Lisa Genova is not a charming read, or a delightful book, or an easy story to toss off in an evening. It’s a beautifully rendered heartbreaking view of a woman who slowly loses herself and how she sees the world around her. Alice begins to notice memory lapses, nothing major or of consequence. But gradually the lapses become more …
Sadly illuminating.
Beautiful story, one of my all time favorite. Deeply touching.
My mother was a victim of dementia and this book described situations that our family went through. It presented true and realistic facts. Most importantly it focuses on never forgetting the person before the disease is still inside, it just can’t come out any longer.
When Alzheimer disease runs in one’s family, the horror of its reality is never far from one’s thoughts. What a gentle way to introduce how a mind loses itself and gives hope that not all loss has to be tragic.
A look into the world of the devastating effects of Altzheimers on humans. very readable!
Wonderful insight into dementia / Alzheimer’s
Book club read this. Great discussion
Hit too close to home – couldn’t finish.
A story based on the author’s knowledge of the brain. It puts the science into story form.