Lisa Genova Books

To understand memory, we must start with its geography. Deep inside your brain lie the regions responsible for turning moments into memories. The hippocampus is the main player—the brain’s memory hub. Its name means “seahorse,” and like its shape, its function winds through almost every memory you c...

From Remember

Encoding is the process of turning experience into memory. But here’s the catch: our brains can’t encode everything we experience. At any given moment, you’re bombarded by information—sights, sounds, sensations—and only a sliver of it will make the cut. The deciding factor? Attention. What you fail ...

From Remember

At the beginning of Alice’s journey, life is defined by precision. She lectures on cognitive psychology at Harvard, commands attention in her field, and moves through her days with the confidence of someone fully at home in her intellect. But then, small lapses start whispering through her life—she ...

From Still Alice

The next phase of Alice’s story is a study in contrasts—the struggle to remain the person she was and the inevitability of transformation. She hides her diagnosis from colleagues, continuing lectures with painstaking focus. Yet language, her lifelong ally, starts betraying her. Common words vanish m...

From Still Alice