Alice, a professor at Harvard has been forgetting things more often than normal lately. She is eventually diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Over the chapters she steadily declines from just forgetting about an upcoming appointment that day to forgetting who her daughters are.
It is heartbreaking reading about this strong woman, only 50 years old, slowly deteriorating. She is such a strong woman in the beginning: a beloved professor and very smart woman who people look up to. She enjoys going for runs; eventually she is unable to go for a run by herself without her husband since she gets lost and will forget where her home is. What makes this book even sadder to read is that Alzheimer’s is a real disease.
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