Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Ms. Genova is a first-time novelist. I'm looking forward to her next book already! This book grabbed me from the first page. It is the fictional story of a 50 year-old Harvard professor who thinks she is going into menopause after checking out the symptoms online. Memory lapses, lack of concentration and so on. She finally goes to her doctor. She is actually in the early stages of early-onset Alzheimers. The book is told from her point of view and is very compelling. Ms. Genova is a neuroscientist from Harvard and also writes a column for the National Alzheimer's Association. In other words, she wasn't sitting at her kitchen table making this stuff up. So it may be fiction, but there are millions of people who are living this story. If you don't need to have a 'happy-ever-after' ending, read this book!