Still Alice
by Lisa Genova · first published 2007
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Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
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I'd strongly recommend the novel "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova. A very sad but accurate portrait of Alzheimer's: http://www.amazon.com/Still-Alice-Lisa-Genova/dp/1501106422/...
on “What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside” ↗Reading 'Still Alice' by Lisa Genova has helped me. http://www.stillalice.blogspot.co.uk/ Edit: Link.
on “The Top Of My Todo List” ↗…even more out of some things this time around. I also liked Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, and in the last month or so I read two enjoyable tearjerkers: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, and Still Alice by Lisa Genova.
on “Ask HN: Best books read in 2022” ↗