Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Alice, a professor at
Harvard has been forgetting things more often than normal lately. She is eventually diagnosed with early-onset
Alzheimer's disease. Over the chapters
she steadily declines from just forgetting about an upcoming appointment that
day to forgetting who her daughters are.
It is heartbreaking reading about
this strong woman, only 50 years old, slowly deteriorating. She is such a strong woman in the beginning:
a beloved professor and very smart woman
who people look up to. She enjoys going
for runs; eventually she is unable to go for a run by herself without her
husband since she gets lost and will forget where her home is. What makes this book even sadder to read is
that Alzheimer’s is a real disease.
Still
Alice was the library’s book club choice for the month of July 2015.
