7.Lisa Genova – Still Alice
One of the best selling self published authors is Lisa Genova.
Her book, Still Alice, tells the story of Alice, a professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard who discovers she has early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Genova is a trained neuroscientist, Still Alice being her debut novel, which she self published in 2007, with iUniverse. The book was picked up by Simon & Schuster in 2009, and published by Pocket Books.
Being translated into 25 different languages, the book has sold millions of copies, spent over 40 weeks on the New York Times best seller list and has an upcoming film adaptation, starring Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, and Julianne Moore.
You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read this book. It will inform you. It will scare you. It will change you.
