RaveThe Boston GlobeLisa Genova’s words, grip and gut. She shot to literary stardom with her breakout novel Still Alice, which was made into a movie not because she had a big publishing house backing her. She didn’t. She self-published and sold her books one by one. And one by one, word spread because Genova knows how to tell a story ... And though the drumbeat gets louder with every page turned, it’s how Richard and his former wife deal with ALS and with each other, that is the book’s heart. ALS does not make them better people. Genova never once sacrifices truth for sentiment. But ALS does make them people who know that time is running out.
