This book will stop you in your tracks. Whatever you had been doing before you started reading Still Alice, will have to be put off until you finish...It is that good. Genova draws the reader quickly into the story of 51 year old Alice, a highly driven Harvard professor with 3 grown children. At the novel's opening Alice is travelling all over the country and world, giving lectures and attending conferences, but the foundations of her solid and successful world are starting to crumble. After she is diagonosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, her rapid descent into memory loss is told with great sympathy and realism. Because the story is told from Alice's perspective, we see close-up the effects this devasting illness has on Alice, her husband, and her family.