![]() ![]() The Harvard Square Hotel, Eastern Mountain Sports, Dickson Bros. She knew she was in Harvard Square, but she didn’t know which way was home. The corridor, the hotel, the stores, the illogically meandering streets. ![]() “She wanted to continue walking but stood frozen instead. In one of Alice’s early episodes, she finds herself disoriented and lost in a place as familiar as her own home: Within 320 pages, readers see Alice Howland quickly swing from an admired professor to a confused and dependent patient. In just a few airborne hours, I had inhaled the entire novel, told from the point of view of a renowned Harvard cognitive psychologist who recognizes in herself the symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer’s. ![]() While wondering how I was going to pass the time, I remembered I had downloaded Still Alice, a book which has been on my to-read list for nearly a decade. I found myself on a nine-hour flight with no television, no Internet and all my downloaded films mysteriously deleted from my e-reader. ![]()
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