Transplant: A Memoir is a page-turning, personal journey into one Black woman’s battle with kidney disease and the American medical system. Bernardine Watson’s book is at once a truth-telling and an affirmation of the life force propelling us all toward love and hope. A vibrant, powerful portrait of what it means to be Black, female, and confronting a deadly disease in today’s America.

Winner of the first annual Washington Writers’ Publishing House Creative Nonfiction Award, 2023. Named one of the ‘5 over 50’ debuts in 2023 by Poets & Writers magazine.

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