我的昨天消失了，明天還是未知數，我該為了什麼而活？
　　
　　愛麗絲．赫蘭是一位才智過人、事業有成的女性，五十歲的她是哈佛大學認知心理學教授、全球知名的語言學家，丈夫也是哈佛的癌症分子生物學家，三個孩子都已長大各有發展。
　　
　　有一天，愛麗絲發現自己的方向感變差，變得健忘。就 醫後，悲劇般的診斷徹底改變了她的生命，也改變了她與家人和世界的關係。一方面，她罹患了侵噬心靈的阿茲海默症，不斷偷走她視為「自己」的部分，記憶趕不 上遺忘，令她逐漸失去與外在世界的連結；另一方面，她卻發現世界在她眼前的模樣開始改變，不斷改變，每一天都有新的方式去生活、去愛，記憶並不是她生命的 一切……

　　★本書中譯版《我想念我自己》由遠流出版。　

　　Alice finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease she is just fifty years old. A university professor, wife, and mother of three, she still has so much more to do - books to write, places to see, grandchildren to meet. But when she can't remember how to make her famous Christmas pudding, when she gets lost in her own back yard, when she fails to recognise her actress daughter after a superb performance, she comes up with a desperate plan. But can she see it through? Should she see it through? Losing her yesterdays, living for each day, her short-term memory is hanging on by a couple of frayed threads. But she is still Alice.

作者簡介

莉莎．潔諾娃（Lisa Genova）

　　哈佛大學神經科學博士，研究主題是憂鬱症之分子病 因、帕金森氏症、藥癮、中風引發之記憶喪失等。她積極參與國際失智症支持網絡與美國失智症協會，也是美國阿茲海默症協會網站專欄作家。此外，她經常參與波 士頓地區舞台劇與獨立製片電影的演出。《我想念我自己》是她的第一部小說，目前也著手撰寫下一部小說。潔諾娃和家人定居麻薩諸塞州。

　　Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is a member of the Dementia Advocacy and Support Network International and DementiaUSA and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer's Association. She lives with her husband and two children on the Cape. Still Alice is her first novel. She is currently at work on her second that also centers on a neurologist impairment called Left Neglected. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.