Still Alice by Lisa Genova is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor who develops young-onset Alzheimer's Disease.
WINNER 2008 Bronte Prize
FINALIST 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, General Fiction
Coming January 2009 (Simon & Schuster)!
"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, accurately and sensitively describing what a person might think and feel, experience and fear, do and not do."
-Mark Warner, Alzheimer's Daily News
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"Powerful, insightful, tragic, inspirational…and all too true." Alireza Atri, M.D., PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital Neurologist
" Readers…are artfully and realistically led through…a window into what to expect, highlighting the importance of allowing the person with the disease to remain a vibrant and contributing member of the community." Peter Reed, PhD, Sr. Director of Programs, Alzheimer's Association, National Office
“With grace and compassion, Lisa Genova writes about the enormous white emptiness created by Alzheimer’s in the mind of the still-too-young and active Alice. A kind of ominous suspense attends her gathering forgetfulness, and Genova puts us, sympathetically, right inside her plight. Somehow, too, she portrays the dumbstruck family’s response as a loving one, and hints at the other hopeful, helpful response that science will eventually provide.†Mopsy Strange Kennedy, Improper Bostonian
“Her (Alice's) thought patterns are so eerily like my own...just amazing. It was like being in my own head and like being in hers.†James Smith, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, age 45
"An intensely intimate portrait of Alzheimer's disease seasoned with highly accurate and useful information about this insidious and devastating disease." Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi, co-author, Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetics Causes of Alzheimer's Disease, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
“Something for the world to read.†Jeanne Lee, author of Just Love Me: My Life Turned Upside-Down By Alzheimer’s
“A laser-precise light into the lives of people with dementia and the people who love them. Genova did her homework.†Carole Mulliken, VP of the Dementia Advocacy and Support Network International, Co-Founder of DementiaUSA
“A work of pure genius. This is the book that I and many of my colleagues have anxiously awaited. The reader will experience a journey down Dementia Road in a way that only those of us with Dementia have experienced. Until now.†Charley Schneider, author of Don’t Bury Me, It Ain’t Over Yet
