Lisa Genova’s Still Alice is the story of a 50 year old Harvard psychology professor named Alice Howland who discovers she has early onset Alzheimer’s disease. In a matter of months, despite medication, Alice finds herself forgetting how to get home, where she put her Blackberry, and what she’s supposed to lecture about to those pesky Harvard students. The author, like her main character, is a Ph.D. in psychology so she knows her stuff. And Lisa Genova’s mother suffered from Alzheimer’s which makes many of the painful family scenes in this book ring true. However, Genova is more of a psychologist than a novelist. If you really want to read about the loss of cognition and identity, read Daniel Keyes’ classic “Flowers for Algernon.” GRADE: B.