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Rarely am I emotionally impacted by a novel to the degree I was
with this one...  Still Alice by Lisa Genova.  It's a novel
about a highly respected Harvard PhD professor and researcher
named Alice Howland who is diagnosed with early-onset
Alzheimer's disease.  It follows her from the first panic
attacks of "where am I" and "what's the word I'm looking for"
through the diagnosis of the disease to the time when nothing
makes sense and she can barely interact with her environment.
 You watch her husband's struggle to come to grips with the fact
he's losing his wife and fellow researcher, as well as how much
he should plan for his future measured against spending time
with her knowing she'll not remember any o