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.

直到这个周日-完成了阅读这本书，阴霾仍然未挥之而去。一个不久前还闪烁辉煌着的奋斗旅程，眼见逐渐被火山熔岩吞噬消融，任何人却没有能力去阻挡，控制。

一个物理性活着的不认识自己的我，那具躯壳里面的主人去了哪里? 有句俗话“好死不如赖活”，我也曾眼见在生死边界挣扎的灵性。我本来想写下，这样活着还有什么意思？但是我没有权利去评判他人的求生意识，生命是平等的。

好像我们真的只能被动接受，那个主人为什么那么无能?