This was an amazing book. My mom gave it to me for Christmas, and at first I wasn't sure if I would enjoy it. The main character is a 50 year old psychology professor, married with children. I'm a 23 year old BEd student. How would I relate? But my mom gave it to me, so of course I had to read it. I really enjoyed it.
Still Alice is about a 50 year old professor who discovers that she has Early Onset Alzheimer's. Throughout the book we watch as Alice progresses through this disease, from first noticing the symptoms to not remembering her own children. I felt her frustrations and fear when she went for a run and found herself lost in her own neighbourhood, not knowing how to get home. I felt her anger when she could not remember how to make the pudding she had made since she was a kid. But most of all I related to her daughter.
Lydia is 24 years old and an actress. Her and her mother have disagreed a lot on her life choices, not to go to college for one, becoming an actress for another, however of all three of Alice's children Lydia is the one who is around the most. Lydia relationship with her mother grows and Alice learns more about who her youngest daughter is and is able to connect with her in new ways. Lydia is also the child that Alice forgets first.
As I read this book I could see myself in Lydia and it made me think of my own mother and the relationship I have with her. I would never want my mother to suffer through this, but I hope to always be there for her, just like Lydia was for her mom.
I would give this book a 4/5. I really enjoyed it. I am very glad my mom chose it for me and would definitely recommend others to read it.
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