Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Book Cover: " Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world - forever. At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer's disease." I have read about people who have Alzheimer's, but usually it happens at a much later age and towards the end of their lives. But this book is about a relatively young woman - only 50 - who starts having problems remembering words or names for objects, and probably the most scary time was when she was running and had no idea where she was or how to get home. And then over a matter of a few months, it gets worse. Her students n...