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Still Alice

Lisa Genova

Finish date: September 5, 2017

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Jul 16, 2023 KimBear rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2023, boston, cape-cod, medical, psychology, dementia

"Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and 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 hea ...more

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Apr 07, 2009 LibraryCin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: family-relationships, mothers-and-daughters, year-read-2010, women, psychology, from-shelfari, alzheimer-s, professors

4.25 stars

Alice is a 50-year old Harvard professor of psychology who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. She and her family have to learn to live with this degenerative disease, knowing that Alice will only get worse.

This was really good. Told from Alice's viewpoint, as she slowly starts forgetting things, you really feel scared, from her point of view. It shows how it affects, not only her life at home, but in her work at Harvard. It's frustrating to see how it affects her family, and t ...more

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