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In an insightful, deeply human story reminiscent of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Daniel Isn't Talking, and The Reason I Jump, Lisa Genova offers a unique perspective in fiction--the extraordinary voice of Anthony, a nonverbal boy with autism. Anthony reveals...

Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire when suddenly, after mere months of forgetfulness, she finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of early onset Alzheimer's Disease.

With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away, leaving her unable to work, read,...

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins...

From New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a "heartbreaking...very human novel" (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntington's disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimer's.

Joe O'Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the...

Sarah Nickerson, like any other working mom, is busy trying to have it all. One morning while racing to work and distracted by her cell phone, she looks away from the road for one second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. After a...

Erschrecken Sie, wenn Ihnen der Name eines bekannten Menschen nicht einfällt? Wenn Sie nicht wissen, warum Sie in einen bestimmten Raum gegangen sind? Sind das simple Gedächtnislücken oder bedenkliche Anzeichen? Lisa Genova beruhigt: Unser Gehirn kann sich nicht alles merken, Vergessen gehört zu seinen Grundfunktionen. Was unser Gedächtnis leistet, grenzt an ein Wunder. Aber perfekt ist es nicht. Vergesslichkeit ist  etwas ganz Natürliches. Lisa Genova erklärt, wie Erinnerungen entstehen und wie wir sie abrufen können, und zeigt, wie es uns...