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Director's Book Club: Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Neuroscientist and debut novelist Lisa Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's, she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband John, when the first symptoms of Alzheimer's begin to emerge.

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