New York : Pocket Books, 2009.

Book

First Pocket Books trade paperback edition.

xi, 293 ; 21 cm

English

9781439102817, 9781439102817, 9781501106422, 1439102813, 1439102813 (pbk.) :, 9781921470264, 1921470267, 9781501106422, 1501106422, 9781439102817 (pbk.), 1439102813 (pbk.)

UG
Level 6, 11 Points

860

Includes a reader's club guide.

Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.

Alice Howland -- Harvard professor, gifted researcher, and lecturer, wife, and mother of three grown children -- sets out for a run and soon realizes she has no idea how to find her way home. She has taken the route for years, but nothing looks familiar. She is utterly lost. Medical consults reveal early-onset Alzheimer's. Alice slowly but inevitably loses memory and connection with reality, as told from her perspective. She gradually loses the ability to follow a conversational thread, the story line of a book, or to recall information she heard just moments before. Genova shows the disease progression through the reactions of others, as Alice does, so readers feel what she feels: a slowly building terror.

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.

860L,Lexile

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