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Here's my Globe & Mail review of Lisa Genova's first novel, Still Alice.

A few pages from the end of Still Alice, the main character, a 50-year-old Harvard professor struggling to retain as much of her life as possible in the face of Alzheimer's disease, sits with the man she can't recognize as her husband and reads a book that she declares after a few minutes to be familiar. He tells her that's because she had written the book with him.

After a few moments of consideration, the confused muddle of neurons in her brain allows her to remember him, the book and herself.

"I miss myself," she then says.

"I miss you too," is his response.  read more