![]() ![]() ![]() She doesn’t know if she should turn left or turn right. So when she comes to an intersection, one she has been to every day for the last 25 years, Alice is paralyzed with the horrifying realization that she doesn’t know how to get home. On most days, she jogs with her husband and they do the route together, but recently he has been working on a research project that makes it difficult for them to jog together. She struggles in silence with these lapses until one day she is taking her morning jog and doesn’t remember how to get home. ![]() The novel starts as Alice begins to notice small memory lapses that she attributes to her approaching menopause. She has one child, Lydia, and a husband, John, an equally distinguished researcher at Harvard. Alice is a distinguished Harvard professor of cognitive psychology invested in research and speaking engagements. Still Alice is a novel written by Lisa Genova about the way Alzheimer’s disease destroys the minds of its victims. ![]()
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