Still Alice
Lisa Genova's debut novel about a 50-year-old woman diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer's followed Alice Howland over two years. From disquietly amount of episodes of forgetfulness. As she was sitting there holding her first grandchild and not knowing who the baby is. For a moment where they feared the normal middle -age memories lapse's, are symptoms of something more serious. On the front, the author actually provides reassurances that Genova holds a Ph.D. in nanoscience and an online columnized for the Alzheimer Association. As she explains the difference between ordinary forgetfulness that is caused by aging, stress menopause, or lack of sleep with the acclimating cognitive failures of Alzheimer's. None of the medical textbooks masquerading as fiction, the author has created a believing, the appealing heroine that has placed her in an imperfect family only in the level of achievement. Alice and her husband are professionals at Harvard. There Daughter Anna Is