Still Alice
Published on July 6th 2007
292 pages
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"Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. 

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind..." ~ Goodreads

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It's a sad story. Baca novel ni, sedikit sebanyak kita boleh tahu dan faham tentang Alzheimer's disease atau dalam Bahasa Melayu dipanggil penyakit nyanyuk. Selalunya berlaku pada usia lanjut tapi ada sesetengah kes berlaku pada usia yang lebih muda. Penyakit Alzheimer ini tak ada ubat. Once kena, memang akan bawa sampai ke akhir hayat...semakin hari semakin teruk sehingga ada pesakit yang lupa how to eat, how to brush teeth, how to go to toilet and so on. It's so scary.