Heartbreaking yet hopeful, this book tells the story of Alice's frightening dissent into dementia. Alice, a mother of 3 brilliant children, a doctor in psychology, a tenured professor in Harvard for the past 25 years, wife to an esteemed and extremely intelligent scientist and researcher, has Early On-set Alzheimers disease at the age of 50. How does a woman whose whole life revolved around her intelligence and her sharp mind cope with the knowledge that she's loosing her intellect one synapse at a time? How do her children cope with their mothers genetic disease knowing it can be transmitted to them? How does a renowned scientist cope with the fact that the woman he loves for her intelligence will eventually not know him or their children? 
 Told in Alice's voice, we are taken on a journey through the mind of an Alzheimer's patient, a patient whose trying her best to retain who she is and keep her family together. Heartbreaking is an understatement. Through the eyes of Alice we witness her families varying and sometimes devastating reactions to her disease, we also witness how hope can bloom even in the most bleak situations. Alice is a wonderful, engaging narrator, I wanted to be there for her, I wanted to be one of her daughters. This book will make you cry, it will break your heart and it will fill you with the sense that somehow, everything will work out.