Still Alice

Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, an authority on language and a runner, mother, and wife, when she begins to lose words and get lost on familiar routes. The diagnosis is early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Told entirely from Alice's point of view, the novel follows the months and years as her formidable mind unravels, charting how she reorders her priorities, confronts her husband's denial and her children's fear, and tries to hold on to herself for as long as the disease will let her. Genova writes from inside the experience, so the reader loses the thread alongside Alice.