Genova wrote the book to humanize a disease that is sometimes viewed as too depressing or scary to talk about.Genova said she used the power of storytelling to encourage people to speak about Alzheimer’s and connect with those who are living with the disease. Eventually, ‘ Still Alice’ became an Oscar-nominated film.
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After self-publishing her book and asking readers to write reviews on Amazon, a literary agent finally agreed to represent the book. everyone who was even marginally interested in thought, ‘I just don’t think the general public is going to want to read about this,'” she said. When neuroscientist Lisa Genova first pitched ‘ Still Alice’ to literary agents, she was rejected by all of them.
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