Still Alice
By Lisa Genova
Alice is a Harvard professor who realizes she's getting forgetful and disoriented - much more than a normal 50-year-old. She gets up to give a lecture, and can't remember her topic. She jogs her usual route, until she can't remember how to get home. The reader experiences Alice's increasingly frequent memory gaps - to the point she no longer recognizes her own children. Thankfully, she has a loving supportive family - but her early onset Alzheimers disease greatly changes the life she once knew. Very good story - heartbreaking and relevant.
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