Still Alice
Lisa Genova, 2007
A Harvard cognitive psychologist with early-onset Alzheimer's fights to keep her language, work and family as her mind erases them.
Lisa Genova
Lisa Genova has a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard; she self-published Still Alice in 2007 before it became a bestseller.
Feels like memory, identity and dread.
A patient's bargain: one illness offers a fight, the other only erasure.
She wished she had cancer instead. She’d trade Alzheimer’s for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she’d have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she’d be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left. Books by Lisa Genova
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