Still Alice Mass Market – December 16, 2014

Still Alice Mass Market Paperback – December 16, 2014

Author: Visit Amazon’s Lisa Genova Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1501107739 | Format: PDF, EPUB

Still Alice Mass Market – December 16, 2014

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• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages


• Publisher: Pocket Books; Media Tie-In edition (December 16, 2014)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1501107739


• ISBN-13: 978-1501107733


• Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1 x 6.8 inches


• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)


• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  
  • #8 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Medical
  
  
  • #54 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Women’s Fiction > Domestic Life
  
  

When Dr. Alice Howland first starts forgetting things like words when giving a speech, she thinks it might be because of menopause. But when she gets lost jogging near her house, on a route she has taken many times, she knows something is seriously wrong and seeks medical help. Not quite fifty, she is totally unprepared for the diagnosis – early onset Alzheimer’s. As the disease progresses, Alice and her husband John learn everything they can about the disease and treatments, but Alzheimer’s quickly takes its toll on both Alice and her family.

“Still Alice” is a beautifully written, heartbreaking novel about the devastating affect Alzheimer’s has on its victims and their families. Author Lisa Genova’s choice of Alice – young, in shape, and intelligent (she’s a Psychiatry Professor at Harvard) – shows that Alzheimer’s can strike anyone, not just the elderly. The book is written from Alice’s viewpoint, but Genova does a good job of showing the affect of Alzheimer’s not only on Alice, but how her family (John, and their children – Anna, Tom, and Lydia) struggle with the changes in Alice. Genova does an excellent job of describing what is going on in Alice’s head as the dementia increases. In fact, Genova does such a good job that I sometimes forgot the book was fiction and not about a real person.

“Still Alice” takes place over a relatively short period of time (September 2002 to September 2005) and it is frightening how fast the Alzheimer’s takes over Alice. Genova skillfully captures the bewilderment Alice feels and there are some moments in the book that are very moving – especially a moment involving a black rug and a moment involving a message a healthier Alice left for a sicker Alice.

I read this book on a flight to Dallas, Texas to see my father. Through a series of small strokes he was showing the effects of progressive dementia. Family was trying to decide what we should do. I cried all the way through the book. I had seen my father twice beffore this trip and had observed enough to br concerned.

Alice Howland taught cognitive psychology courses at Harvard for over twenty-five years. Alice and her husband, John authored Molecules to Mind, she published papers, and lectured around the world. Her three children were grown and on their own paths (not that she was very happy about Lydia’s choice of acting, but she hadn’t given up trying to influence her to go back to real school). Her son Tom was doing well in school, daughter Annie and her husband, Charlie are attorneys trying to conceive a first grandchild.

Facing a busy schedule and travel and everyday stress, Alice isn’t concerned when she begins to forget little things, where the keys are, names of acquaintances or a momentary sense of disorientation. After all she is fifty and that is part of menopause. .

A trip to her family doctor to get some suggestions for cognitive memory reinforcement and to see if medication is available does not help. Alice is stunned to learn that she has Early Onset Alzheimer’s and that there is not very much available for treatment. Telling her husband and children is even harder to face. Eventually she has to face the loss of her teaching and life’s work.

“Still Alice” is Alice’s voice as she struggles with the advancement of Alzheimer’s. As the disease advances, she is living more in the now, and often hurt by her interpretations of family member’s words and actions.

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