When I was faced with reading it for a second time (as a reading group choice) I wondered whether it would have less of an emotional impact. I found this story profoundly sad, disturbing and thought-provoking when I read it soon after it was first published. While she once placed her worth and identity in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must reevaluate her relationship with her husband, a respected scientist her expectations of her children and her ideas about herself and her place in the world.Īt once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer's disease that is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as unforgettable as Ordinary People. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease changes her life.Īs the inevitable descent into dementia strips away her sense of self, fiercely independent Alice struggles to live in the moment. At fifty years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. An extraordinary debut novel about an accomplished woman who slowly loses her thoughts and memories to a harrowing disease - only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and lovingĪlice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build.
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