I'm still me

She is losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hangs by a few frayed threads, and so she lives in the present moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice. She did not want to become someone people avoid and fear. She wanted to live long enough to hold Anna's child and know it was her grandchild. She wanted to see Lydia act in something that would make her proud. She wanted to see Tom fall in love. She wanted to read every book she could. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she is a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert, with a successful husband and three grown-up children. When she begins to suffer from increasing disorientation and forgetfulness, a tragic diagnosis changes her life – and her relationship with her family and the world around her – forever. Alice finds herself in a steep downward spiral of Alzheimer's disease. She is only 50 years old. While she once based her worth and identity on her celebrated and respected academic career, she must now re-evaluate her relationship with her husband, her expectations of her children, and her ideas about herself and her place in the world. Still Alice is as captivating as A Beautiful Mind and as powerful as Ordinary People. You gain an understanding of those living with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, and you will find yourself moved and inspired long after you put the book down.