Title: Still Alice
Author: Lisa Genova
Publication date: 2007
Alice Howland is kind of a big deal. She's a professor of psychology at Harvard and travels the world as an invited speaker at conferences, is a published author and researcher. When Alice begins to forget things, she finds it unusual but not alarming. When she goes out for a run and can't remember how to get home, things change.
Lisa Genova, herself an accomplished professor of psychology, takes us through Alice's discovery of her early-onset Alzheimer's and how this alters her family dynamic.
The subject matter was a jarring one. My own great memory is a personal source of pride. The possibility of that trait deteriorating is frightening. It's certainly what makes Still Alice such a compelling read: if it can happen to someone as accomplished, albeit fictional, as Alice, could it happen to me? What would I do?
Still Alice is the February selection for my book club selected and recommended by my friend Jorri. We're looking forward to that discussion and hoping to see the film adaptation soon as well.
Four stars
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