Transplant: A Memoir

"Bernardine Watson’s memoir about her journey through family estrangement, life-threatening kidney disease, three marriages, raising a son and an impressive career consulting for foundations and nonprofits is a page-turner. Watson insists the reader understand that kidney disease afflicts Black people and people of color in outsize numbers in the U.S. and that our health system continues to fail us. She tells a difficult story while threading affirmation and positivity through to finding her true love. Most important are her clear-eyed explanations about the complexity and challenges of kidney disease, all too ordinary in America."