{"product_id":"liverwurst-ella-f-b-watson-9781463403980","title":"Liverwurst: Work Made at the Onset of End-Stage Liver Failure Until Live-Donor Organ Transplantation (December 2007-June 2009)","description":"\"The process of transplantation is a grueling one- demanding physical participation in a battery of tests and procedures as well as an emotional commitment to oneself and acceptance of the unknown. This is a beautiful catalogue of stories, photographs and drawings that tell Ella's story of chronic illness and her journey towards transplant. Throughout this process she demonstrates a remarkable spirit and strength despite loss, illness and ever present chance of dying. Through her art and words she provides a window into her soul as she faces her own mortality with grace, maturity and humor.\" ---Ariana Rose, Nurse Practitioner \"The remarkable hospital sketchbook of artist Ella Watson chronicles her two year crisis battling end-stage liver failure. A young woman in need of an organ transplant, with no insurance, no money, no parents, no safety net: in drawing after luminous drawing she tells the story. It is a graphic tour de force. Her body inside and out, breached and cut open, perforated with tubes and pumps, fever dreams in emergency rooms, portraits of fellow patients, life-giving nurses, latex- gloved hands, monitors, pills, syringes, clocks (above all clocks): a gurney-eye tour of intensive care. She wins passage through the disintegrating U.S. social welfare system, through the veil of pain and time, doing the thing she knows best: drawing and writing for her life. Her eye and steady hand miss nothing. Ella captures -- for her doctors, for her brother and sisters, for us, and for art -- the misery and triumph of the life urge.\" ---Elizabeth King, Sculpture Department, Virginia Commonwealth University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ella F. B. Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1463403984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781463403980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.20d","brand":"Ella F. B. Watson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123820589311,"sku":"9781463403980","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3be61b6a-ddca-41b8-ab25-7079359bddca.jpg?v=1687433068","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liverwurst-ella-f-b-watson-9781463403980","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}