Still Alice

Lisa Genova

Jan 2009 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind...

Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.

Ratings and reviews

Loved the book. Having said that I was extremely disappointed that the side effects of the NAMENDA were not mentioned. My Mother was prescribed the drug and it made her almost zombie like. (this is a common side effect) It was like what was left of her personality was just slipping away. To me it was worse, her personality was ever changing but on the Namenda she was a shell of the person she was when not on it.

As I read this book I couldn't help make comparisons to my mother in law who is going through EoA. I can now understand what she may need thinking or going through and how I may better deal with her in these next very difficult years to come. I see some extremely similarities in things Alice went through in the beginning of the book. Thanks for writing this book. It makes everything make sense.

One of the best books that I have ever read. I could not put it down. I love Lisa's writing style. This book made me cry. I loved all the characters.

About the author

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Remember. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide speaking about the neurological diseases she writes about and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, PBS NewsHour, CNN, and NPR. Her TED talk, What You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's, has been viewed over 2 million times.