Still Alice 我想念我自己

　　Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old cognitive psychologyprofessor at Harvard, and a world-renowned expert in linguistics,with grown children and a satisfying marriage, when she starts toexperience fleeting forgetfulness and disorientation. She initiallyattributes these episodes to normal aging or menopause. But as hersymptoms worsen, she sees a neurologist and is given the diagnosisthat will change her life forever: early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning andpurpose in her life as her sense of self is gradually strippedaway, leaving her unable to continue in her profession, take careof herself, recognize her loved ones or even understand that shehas a neurodegenerative disease. Without memory or hope, Alice isforced to live in the moment, which is in turns beautiful,terrifying, and maddening. Genova uses the successful, articulateand independent Alice as the perfect vehicle to capture what itfeels like to literally lose your mind. This novel will touch andinspire you. You will admire Alice’s strength and resourcefulnessas much as cry over her losses. And it will bring new understandingfor all those affected by this terrible neurological disease.