Book Review--"Still Alice"

I have recently finished “Still Alice” written by Lisa Genova, a neuroscientist and write.  I really have very little negative to say about this book.  The book drew you into the subtle decline of Alice Howland, a 50-year-old woman. Alice is a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert. She is married to an equally successful husband, and they have three grown children.

 I would recommend this book to anyone who is facing the diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s disease.  It leads the reader through the changes Alice experiences as Alice’s attempts of cover up her memory deficits, continues to interact in her career and in her role as a wife, mother and grandmother.  It chronicles the coping mechanisms of her colleagues, her students, her husband and her family as they try to understand and deal with the changes taking place in Alice.