salsadancer reviewed on 2/5/2015 + 27 more book reviews

Genova, who has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard, relates the experience of living with Alzheimer's from the Alzheimer's point of view. Alice, a brilliant professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics, discovers she has early onset Alzheimer's. It read a little too much like a scientific paper, as though Alice's thoughts and struggles are a researcher's observations studying Alzheimer's. Such a topic allows few endings that can be original and satisfying at the same time. I felt that how it ended, though, could have been better. It was rushed and confusing to me; I wanted to know more about how John, Alice's husband, continued to deal with their situation, and how they ultimately decided on that big moving question.

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