Washington Writers' Publishing House

Testimonials

• We think of a transplant as a surgical procedure, but Bernardine Watson’s memoir makes it clear that it’s also a journey. Transplant: A Memoir transports the reader along the path of hopes dashed, then revived, despair, courage, faith, and love. Watson’s strikingly visual prose is also intimate. We’re always in the same space with her, seeing, hearing, and feeling exactly what she does. It’s a journey toward life.

  Kojo NnamdiHost, The Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi WAMU-FM, National Public Radio

• Bernardine Watson has written a beautiful memoir about the struggle to maintain health while living with a potentially lethal disease. But Transplant: A Memoir is mostly a book about becoming: a woman, a mother, a member of a family she learns to love better, and a loved and treasured soul mate. Through her struggle, she becomes much more than her disease and bigger and braver than she could have imagined

  Marita GoldenAuthor, Creative Writing Coach, Literary Consultant

• Bernardine Watson has delivered a brave, inspiring memoir of resilience against long odds, of her struggle to stay healthy and hopeful as she battled a rare, incurable kidney disease. In Transplant: A Memoir, Dine’s spirit–and sometimes her anger–leaps off the pages, grabs you, holds you, and ultimately, lifts you. This is a story for all of us.

  Kelly Helm, Executive Director of Patient Engagement at NephCure