The New Social Worker's book club had picked their next book, Still Alice . The name immediately caught my attention because one of the most fascinating books I've ever read was Go Ask Alice , the anonymous diary of a teenage girl who died of a drug overdose in the 1960s. I received a message that the Still Alice , however, is not about drug abuse or a teenage girl. Still Alice is the fictional story of Alice Howland, a 50 y.o. Harvard professor of Psychology who is diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease. While I'm sure most people know a little something about Alzheimer's, my guess is that very few are aware of the early onset variety. One of the most striking scenes in the book is when Alice goes for a run in the afternoon. At the end of her run on her way back home, Alice gets stuck at Harvard Square. Keep in mind that she's taught at the school for some twenty years and yet, she still doesn't know which way is home. Later in the book