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Alice is a well-known Harvard professor with a successful career, a loving husband, and three grown children. However, at the age of 50, she finds herself increasingly forgetting things - a particular word of a lecture, an event, how to get home from a run... Alice is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease and her world completely changes.
This book is beautiful and horrifying and tragic. It literally hurt my heart to read about Alice's unraveling and spiral into her disease. It's terrif ...more
This book is beautiful and horrifying and tragic. It literally hurt my heart to read about Alice's unraveling and spiral into her disease. It's terrif ...more
A few years ago, the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference was in Seattle and I had a chance to attend (I was a high school librarian before retirement). Lisa Genova spoke at the conference and it was fascinating to hear her knowledge of Alzheimer's Disease and encouraging to hear about some of the progress being made toward fighting the condition. I had read the book before the conference and it was a 5 star read for me, but I did not review it at the time, so the details are not
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Hard topic - a little too real to read, for me, for now. Maybe I'll pick it back up again later.
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