Machiko Yamamoto pulls out her hair, picks at her skin, and triple checks the locks to the house behind the school where she works. If you enjoyed Still Alice, check out these indie sensations: When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life-and her relationship with her family and the world-forever. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. Now an indie movie, starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Julianne Moore (who won a well-deserved Oscar for her role this past Sunday) parts of Still Alice can be more harrowing to watch (and read) than a Stephen King novel.Īlice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. Still Alice, Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times (and originally self-pubbed) bestselling novel, is the story of an accomplished professor diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
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