Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by a first-time author who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Ordinary People," this work packs an emotional punch. Powerful, insightful, tragic, inspirational.and all too true.
Alireza Atri, 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, Director of Programs, National Alzheimer's Association 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 family's response as a loving one, and hints at the other hopeful, helpful response that science will eventually provide. Mopsy Kennedy, Improper Bostonian An intensely intimate portrait of Alzheimer's 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 Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease Her (Alice's) thought patterns are so eerily like my own...amazing. It was like being in my own head and like being in hers. James Smith, diagnosed with Alzheimer's, age 45 .,. 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. Carole Mulliken, 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 journey downDementia 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 Review: 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
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