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Still Alice [Deckle Edge] [Paperback]

Lisa Genova
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Jan 6 2009
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.

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 heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...

Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.


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"After I read Still Alice, I wanted to stand up and tell a train full of strangers, 'You have to get this book.'" -- Beverly Beckham, The Boston Globe

"This book is as important as it is impressive, and will grace the lives of those affected by this dread disease for generations to come." -- Phil Bolsta, author of Sixty Seconds

"With a master storyteller's easy eloquence, Lisa Genova shines a searing spotlight on this Alice's surreal wonderland. You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read this book. It will inform you. It will scare you. It will change you." -- Julia Fox Garrison, author of Don't Leave Me This Way

"A work of pure genius." -- Charley Schneider, author of Don't Bury Me, It Ain't Over Yet

"A masterpiece that will touch lives in ways none of us can even imagine. This book is the best portrayal of the Alzheimer's journey that I have read." -- Mark Warner, Alzheimer's Daily News

"With grace and compassion, Lisa Genova writes about the enormous white emptiness created by Alzheimer's." -- The Improper Bostonian

"Heartbreaking." -- The Cape Cod Chronicle

"Heartbreakingly real.... So real, in fact, that it kept me from sleeping for several nights. I couldn't put it down....Still Alice is a story that must be told." -- Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader

About the Author

Lisa Genova is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Love Anthony, Left Neglected, and Still Alice. Love Anthony, her latest, is the moving story of the mother of a boy with autism. She graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide, speaking about the causes, treatments, ways to prevent, and what it feels like to live with Alzheimer’s Disease. She has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, The Diane Rehm Show, CNN, Chronicle, Fox News, and Canada AM and is featured in the documentary film, To Not Fade Away. She lives with her husband and three children in Cape Cod.

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62 of 63 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Life imitating art...in my own life Jan 19 2009
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Alice Howland taught cognitive psychology courses at Harvard for over twenty-five years. Alice and her husband, John authored Molecules to Mind, she published papers, and lectured around the world. Her three children were grown and on their own paths (not that she was very happy about Lydia's choice of acting, but she hadn't given up trying to influence her to go back to real school). Her son Tom was doing well in school, daughter Annie and her husband, Charlie are attorneys trying to conceive a first grandchild.

Facing a busy schedule and travel and everyday stress, Alice isn't concerned when she begins to forget little things, where the keys are, names of acquaintances or a momentary sense of disorientation. After all she is fifty and that is part of menopause. .

A trip to her family doctor to get some suggestions for cognitive memory reinforcement and to see if medication is available does not help. Alice is stunned to learn that she has Early Onset Alzheimer's and that there is not very much available for treatment. Telling her husband and children is even harder to face. Eventually she has to face the loss of her teaching and life's work.

"Still Alice" is Alice's voice as she struggles with the advancement of Alzheimer's. As the disease advances, she is living more in the now, and often hurt by her interpretations of family member's words and actions. She reacts with anger and confusion as her world shifts and becomes more unfamiliar and frightening. Her family also has to deal with their emotions. The realization that their funny, loving accomplished mother and wife is slowly disappearing before their eyes are devastating, and they each react differently. Alice tries to stay aware of what is happening, but has the disease advances her voice becomes quieter and briefer. Lisa Genova has a Ph.D in Neuroscience from Harvard University and works with several Alzheimer's organizations as well as serving as the online columnist for the national Alzheimer's Association. Although "Still Alice" is a work of fiction, it is apparent there is much drawn from real life experiences and observations. Genova has given a voice to a population not usually listened to. The characters are facing uncertainty and struggling with Alice's decent into unknowing. There are moments of hilarity as well as heartbreak. This book will touch anyone who works with dementia patients, or who has a friend or loved one with Alzheimer's. (early 2008)

1/19/2009

Less than a year later finds me, the reviewer, caring for my own father in my home as he succumbs more and more to his organic dementia. We have had to uproot him from his home in Texas to move into our home in Utah where either my husband or I can be with him around the clock. We moved into a house and I have drastically cut back on my work load. I keep looking back to the pages where Alice tries to describe her confusion and tries to frame what she wants from those around her so I can somehow meet those same needs in my Father. I fear I am falling short.....there is so much anger directed at me and my husband for moving him away. We couldn't transfer out jobs down to Texas and survive. Being over fifty we couldn't walk away from careers with tenure and pensions. Between my 7 other siblings there were too many teenagers (too much stress) too many young children (ditto) and a widowed sister looking for a possible husband. Oh, and the inevitable family conflicts. No matter how hard I have tried I feel I am falling short. "It's nothing personal, Mary....I like your brothers more than you" Dad hates it here, it isn't working. "One night I am going to walk right out of here and won't that be a surprise in the morning?' Dad often says the blessing at dinner and is sure to add "Please bless this food especially since Mary has cooked tonight" that is if he can manage to say all that before we all get the giggles and just say "amen". I work with this type patient everyday at my job and I still cannot make it work in my homecare for my own Father. I reread Still Alice as a roadmap. it is my best guide.....though the road is unknown and I feel completely unprepared to travel it. I have no choice I must keep moving on....
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic Read Dec 26 2012
By Benny
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A gripping tale about early onset alzheimers. Didn't want to put this book down, and had a lot of empathy for the victims and caregivers of alzheimers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing May 21 2013
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Depressing but amazing. Great story about a Harvard Prof with immense professional success who wakes up one day and notices her memory is escaping her.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Still Alice
I could not put this book down - it was inspirational as well as informative on the devastating effects of Alzeimer's.
Published 2 days ago by Joan Thorkelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Moving novel
This novel was recommended by instructors in a dementia care course. This is going to be a must-read for the sandwich generation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars still alice
STILL ALICE is a wonderful story to help understand what someone with Alzheimers is going through, or for anyone recently diagnosed with the disease.
Published 2 months ago by Joan Chapman
5.0 out of 5 stars `January nineteenth. Nothing good ever happened on that day.'
Alice Howland is a happily married 50 year old woman with three grown children and a successful academic career. Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Cameron-Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars A "must read" for every caretaker and/or anyone who is living...
It's gives good insight into what's happening to someone who is diagnosed with Alsheimer and it helps other people to understand what she is going through as the desease... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Erlinda Quintos
2.0 out of 5 stars Not of my interest
It was rather boring and quite predictable. It was filled with knowledge, but it was not worded in a way that grabs the reader's attention.
Published 4 months ago by Mark Twain
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic read!
I truly enjoyed "Still Alice". It's not often that a book has a truly emotional appeal for me - this one did. Enjoy it!
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Published 4 months ago by Scott Galbraith
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
While a fictional account, Still Alice provides insight into the world of one afflicted with early onset alzheimers. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Cbask
4.0 out of 5 stars Howdenvale Bookers vote yes
We rated this novel at 4.5 stars.
It was well written, researched and provided insight into Alzheimer’s from the view of the victim during the progression of the disease. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Howdenvale Bookers
5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal, Insightful, Heartbreaking and Humbling
This is a phenomenal book....nothing I have read in the past comes close in comparison. What an impact, I could not put it down, yet had me in tears frequently. Read more
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