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Still Alice | 
| Author: Lisa Genova
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Rating:  390 reviews
Sales Rank: 24144
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 337
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1439170045
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781439170045
ASIN: 1439170045
Publication Date: December 29, 2009
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"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 Alzheimers 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 familys 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 Alzheimers, age 45 ...something for the world to read. Jeanne Lee, author of Just Love Me: My Life Turned Upside-Down By Alzheimers 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 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
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 The Deteriorating Mind of a Woman with Alzheimer's Disease July 16, 2010
monique ritter (New York)
Still Alice, by Lisa Genova, may quite possibly be one of my favorite books! It is a heart-wrenching novel told from the point of view of a woman in her 50's who discovers that she has early onset Alzheimer's disease. It is a fascinating read as it allows you to see and understand this disease from a very personal perspective as it slowly deteriorates the mind of main character Alice.
Alice is a renowned professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard, which builds the irony throughout Genova's story, since understanding the mind is Alice's profession. However, when she begins to lose her memory, we are pulled into the sadness of Alice's world as she first discovers her illness and then prepares to tell her family and her colleagues. The reader is allowed, first hand, to experience the frustration that comes with this disease - from the beginning stages (forgetting things, getting lost, grasping for words and memories) to the later and more devastating stages (not recognizing her own husband and children).
This book is a must read for anyone who knows someone with Alzheimer's disease or for someone who wants to further understand the disease. Even if that's not the case, which wasn't mine in picking up the book, it is a story that will not only educate you, but will move you as well. I give my highest recommendation to Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice.
- Monique Ritter, Author of The Song Unsung
 The Deteriorating Mind of a Woman with Alzheimer's Disease July 12, 2010
monique ritter (New York)
Still Alice, by Lisa Genova, may quite possibly be one of my favorite books! It is a heart-wrenching novel told from the point of view of a woman in her 50's who discovers that she has early onset Alzheimer's disease. It is a fascinating read as it allows you to see and understand this disease from a very personal perspective as it slowly deteriorates the mind of main character Alice.
Alice is a renowned professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard, which builds the irony throughout Genova's story, since understanding the mind is Alice's profession. However, when she begins to lose her memory, we are pulled into the sadness of Alice's world as she first discovers her illness and then prepares to tell her family and her colleagues. The reader is allowed, first hand, to experience the frustration that comes with this disease - from the beginning stages (forgetting things, getting lost, grasping for words and memories) to the later and more devastating stages (not recognizing her own husband and children).
This book is a must read for anyone who knows someone with Alzheimer's disease or for someone who wants to further understand the disease. Even if that's not the case, which wasn't mine in picking up the book, it is a story that will not only educate you, but will move you as well. I give my highest recommendation to Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice.
- Monique Ritter, Author of The Song Unsung
Phenomenal and excruciatingly beautiful July 11, 2010
Elizabeth H. Cottrell (Shenandoah Valley, VA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"This is a phenomenal book," my friend Kay said as she loaned it to me. "Oh, good," I said. "What's it about?" "Well, it's about a woman with early onset Alzheimer's." She paused, knowing how unappealing that must have sounded. "I promise you, it's worth reading."
If ANYONE else but this particular friend had said that, I would have passed on it, imagining that they just liked tear-jerkers and emotionally heavy books (I usually don't). Thank goodness I read it. It's a book that changes you, makes you more compassionate for the issues facing everyone in the family of an Alzheimer's patient, makes you more grateful for every healthy day you have, and inspires you to believe that you could, as this family in the story did, navigate the rough shoals of a dementia-like disease with love as the only guide. While heartbreaking, this story is strangely uplifting, and I believe it is an enormously important contribution to the public's understanding and awareness of this disease. Never again will I avoid interacting with someone I know who suffers from dementia.
Dr. Alice Howland, 50 years old, is a cognitive linguistics professor at Harvard and a world expert in linguistics. She dismisses her initial memory lapses until the day she gets lost a few blocks from her home on a run that she has taken daily for years. The reader is taken into the surreal world of her initial awareness and analysis, through the trials and fears of seeking help and diagnosis, into the reactions of her successful husband and two grown daughters, and on to the fascinating and excruciating unraveling of life as she knew it, while hanging on desperately to what it is that makes her "Still Alice." Besides the author's masterful depiction of Alice's experience, she is gives us an extremely compassionate appreciation for the husband and daughters' viewpoints and emotional reactions to the disease and to Alice's increasingly unpredictable behavior.
The author is herself a Harvard neuroscientist and online columnist for the National Alzheimer's Association. The testimonials from professionals and volunteers who work in the field of Alzheimer's treatment and research are proof that she "got it right."
I agree with the back-cover quote from a Boston Globe critic named Beverly Beckham: "After I read Still Alice, I wanted to stand up and tell a train full of strangers, 'You have to get this book.'"
very enlightening July 11, 2010
kimberly c shurack
I read this book in one day. It was so interesting the way the story was told from the perspective of the person with Alzheimers. Every caregiver should read this book to help them understand what their spouse, relative or friend may be feeling as they cope with this disease. I know the book is fictional but it really addresses the fears and stress of this disease. How to tell family and friends, when to tell, all the hard questions. I highly recommend this book. I have started reading anything & everything on Alzheimers and share what I know with family and friends affected by this disease.
Impressive July 6, 2010
Pamela S. Lee (North Carolina)
Some of the psychology-related jargon felt stilted, but other than that, I have no complaints about Still Alice. The book was both touching and thought-provoking, a great pick for book clubs!
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