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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This book is very well written. I wish I had read it before my mother’s dementia had progressed. It surely gives the reader an inside look at what an Alzheimer patient is experiencing.
I surely hope and pray that a cure is coming soon.
Realistic insight into this devastating disease. Better understanding of what many may experience.
Every one should read this book. Whether Alzheimer’s is in your family or not at some time we will all come in contact with this debilitating disease in family, friends or neighbors.
It will definitely haunt you especially when you can’t remember! Is it happening to me? Is this what my mother went through? How will I know when it’s happening? How can my family be protected? The book definitely grabs you!
Heart wrenching.
A peek at a terrible disease. I found this book very compelling, and sad. It was based on true story of a college professor a brilliant mind destroyed by Alhiemer’s . It also scared me because it could happen to any of us.
Well written, realistic, will stay with you for a long time. It’s a real look at Alzheimer’s without being maudlin or sugar coating it. I felt for everyone in the book.
This is one story that will stay with you for all of your life. It’s very informative, but you’re really connected to the characters so it doesn’t read like a boring book. You’re truly invested in the story that is being told, and invested in all the characters. You’re with them. You really feel like Alice reading this, trying to piece everything …
I have a father who has Alzheimer’s and this book is like no other. Gives you from perspective of the person with Alzheimer’s. So profound. Loved it so much I told my mother she needed to read it to help her understand better. Get a box of tissues real close you will need them. And laugh a little too.
Even though it is fiction, I found it very informative. Recommended it to others to help understand what an aging parent maybe going thru even though the main character wasn’t at the time she was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s.
Awesome book
If you have family or friends dealing with any form of dementia, this is an execellent picture of what the patient is feeling.
We have an aunt going through dementia at 80+ years. This woman’s slide starts too early in life. It is so incredibly spot-on. Not a happy-read, but a beautiful one.
Since someone in my family has Alzheimer this book gave me a clear understanding.
Directly proportional to my experience in caring for my mother until death intervened.
I though it was an amazing book. I was in tears . It truly hit home in a spot that was raw and real in my family. Thank you for your incites and truth. Excellent, highly recommend.
This book haunts you long after you finish reading it. Any family can be touched by this sad problem..
A book everyone should read since Alzheimer’s is something that could happen to anyone. It gives you what to expect.
This was a very heart-rending story. The author’s perspective into Alice’s decline was so realistic. It really opened my eyes to a person’s struggle with one’s own decline as well as the struggles of their family members, friends and colleagues.
This book was sad and realistic, my mom had Alzheimer’s and although she was older it still hit home. The medicine she took, How my dad looked at her. He loved her so much, but because she didn’t look different he wanted her to be herself, which of course she couldn’t do.