👩🏾 🏫 🧑🏾 🏫 Our Independent Bookstore of the Month: Café con Librosįind Alexis and Kari online: Instagram - Twitter - /litsocietypod Facebook - and our website Get in on the conversation by using #booksanddrama. That enemy is Alzheimer’s Disease, and one brilliant woman is blind-sighted when having to face it too soon at an age too young. It abducts those you love the most, leaving you alone until even the person in the mirror becomes a stranger. Until it stops your mind and your heart, it is relentless. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.An indomitable enemy, it holds you captive in your body as it eats away at your mind. Oz, The Diane Rehm Show, CNN, Chronicle, Fox News, and Canada AM and is featured in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film To Not Fade Away. She travels worldwide speaking about Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, and autism.
Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. Her first novel, Still Alice, has been adapted into a film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. She epitomizes what is possible when you listen to your internal. When I learned of Lisa’s work and life mission I knew I had to have her on the show. Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Inside the O'Briens, Love Anthony, Left Neglected, and Still Alice. Lisa Genova: Celebrating 4 Years of the Show w/ NYTimes Best-Selling Author of 'Still Alice' (re-run): Lisa Genova, the New York Times Bestselling Author of Still Alice, is today’s guest. Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it's like to literally lose your mind. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
Struggling to cope with the diagnosis, Alice and her family must figure out how to deal with her deteriorating memory and the changes it brings. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!Īlice 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. Still Alice is a book about Alice Howland, a 50-year-old professor at Harvard who is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers disease. In Lisa Genova's extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer's disease-only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. We will be happy to arrange for that possibility based on the author's schedule. Please note: If you would like your copy personalized instead of simply autographed, you will be able to include the text you prefer during the checkout process.
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