Noted Novelist to Speak in October

Plan on being at the on Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 pm to hear Lisa Genova, noted New York Times bestselling author, talk about her two books Still Alice and Left Neglected.  

 Tackling two subjects that are not easy to deal with or to write about, Ms Genova has done an incredible job with both novels. 

Still Alice is the story of a 50-year-old woman’s descent into dementia.  Alice Howland is a professor at Harvard who through the course of the book loses her cognitive skills and her ability to function in the academic world. 

Confronted with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, Alice tries to ignore, battle, tame, outrun and outwit this devastating illness but in the end there is no hope. 

This is a powerful first novel which explores a difficult topic but one that must be discussed as 5,000,000 people or more are living with Alzheimer’s in the United States.

Lisa Genova’s latest novel, Left Neglected focuses on the main character, Sarah Nickerson, who is a career-driven supermom living outside of Boston with her husband and her three children. 

Sarah manages every minute of her life like an air traffic controller. One day, however, when driving to work and trying to make a phone call on her cell, she takes her eye off the road and her life comes to a screeching halt. 

Suffering from a traumatic brain injury, Sarah experiences “left neglect,” the strange feeling that one does not have the left side of their body.  Through the course of the novel Sarah must struggle to regain her independence and to heal and through these experiences she begins to appreciate the gift of life, love and family.

 Lisa Genova has a PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard University.  She is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer’s Association.

You will not want to miss this evening.  Free tickets to this Chorover Author Series event will be available beginning Friday, Oct. 7 at the library.