Still Alice
2007 • 357 pages

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Average rating4.2

15

This is a sad story. You are prepared going in, but, still, it's a tough read.

Alice is a Harvard professor who studies the brain. She begins to notice that she is forgetting things. The pattern continues and grows bolder, and Alice is forced to seek help. What she feared most is true: She has early-onset Altzheimer's.

Reading the story from Alice's point of view is difficult. She grows less and less aware of things and more and more estranged from her world.

Very sad story.

June 1, 2009