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“The words, the information, the meaning…..were like soap bubbles, the kind children blew out of those little plastic wands, on a windy day.  They drifted away from her quickly and in dizzying directions, requiring enormous strain and concentration to track.  And even if she managed to actually hold a number of them in her sight for some promising duration, it was invariably too soon that pop! They were gone, burst without obvious cause into oblivion, as if they’d never existed.”

Hi this is Betsy from Otto’s reading from the book, Still Alice, a new novel about Alzheimer’s Disease from the inside out.  Alice is a 50 year old Harvard professor of linguistics who was forgetting words, where she put things, how to get home from her run.  She was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s and the reader travels with her through the ins and outs of the progressing disease.  She still loves, she still wants to make a difference in life.  She’s still Alice.  Read it and you’ll have a new appreciation for the person with the disease.  Still Alice.  You’ll find it at Otto’s, a booklover’s paradise in the heart of Downtown Williamsport.   

Still Alice (Paperback)

By Lisa Genova

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9781439102817
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Gallery, 01/01/2009

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