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    A SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
    A SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
    A SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
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    A SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice

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    SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of Still Alice by Lisa Genova 

    About Still Alice

    In this bestselling novel, fifty-year-old Alice Howland, an accomplished Harvard professor, learns of her diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease. She begins to feel the life that she has worked so hard to build crumble. Her husband and three grown children are at a loss as she becomes increasingly disoriented and vulnerable.

    Inside this summary of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice, you’ll find:

    • Detailed but concise chapter summaries
    • Character and theme analysis
    • Discussion questions
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    Please note that this summary is NOT the original book and is meant to be read as a supplement to the original.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpeedReader Summaries
    Release dateFeb 6, 2017
    ISBN9781386564133
    A SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
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      A SpeedReader Summary and Analysis of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice - SpeedReader Summaries

      About the Book and Author

      Introduction To Still Alice

      Still Alice by Lisa Genova is a novel about a relatively young woman’s heartbreaking descent into early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The brilliant and put-together Alice Howland is a psychology professor at Harvard. She’s also a writer, a wife, and a mother of three grown children.  Shortly before her fiftieth birthday, however, she begins to experience perplexing memory problems. Eventually, she realizes that something is wrong. After some testing, she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. The diagnosis turns Alice’s life, and the lives of her family members, upside down. Her children are terrified, her husband is at a loss, and Alice herself becomes more and more vulnerable as her disease progresses.

      About Lisa Genova

      Ms. Genova is a first-time author with a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University. During her career, she’s conducted research on memory loss following stroke, Parkinson’s Disease, drug addiction, and the molecular etiology of depression. She was inspired to write Still Alice, in part, because her own grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s. Ms. Genova watched her grandmother deteriorate, which had a profound affect on the young woman. She was heartbroken, but also came to be fascinated by the disease from both an academic perspective and the perspective of someone experiencing the disease firsthand.

      *Please note that this book is not meant to be a substitute for Genova’s book, but, instead, a supplement intended to enhance your appreciation for and understanding of the book.

      Chapter Summaries

      September 2003

      Dr. Alice Howland is a psychology professor, specializing in linguistics at Harvard University. She is happily married to John Howland a research scientist, also at Harvard and they have three grown children. Alice leaves for Stanford early in the morning, as she is the guest lecturer at a conference. During the lecture, Alice becomes unexpectedly confused in the middle, forgetting a term that she has used many times. Mildly embarrassed, she forgets it, and is able to move and comfortably finish the talk and answer questions. After the conference, Alice meets up with her youngest daughter, Lydia, who is living out in California. Alice becomes a little concerned when she sees Lydia bohemian type apartment and finds out about the two male roommates. Alice also discovers that John has beean paying for Lydia's acting classes while Alice has been insistent that Lydia goes to college instead. Their other two children have gone to law school and medical school and Alice is quite frustrated that their youngest has continued to be so determined to pursue an acting career.

      Alice goes home and decides to go home and go for a run along the route that she has run for years. On the way back, she suddenly loses her way

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