The Long Road to Normal is Michael Alvarez's memoir. He cheated death three times before he was 19. His long road to a normal life began at 14 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of lupus, which caused complete organ failure. A year later he had his first kidney transplant, but his body rejected it. For the next 12 years he tried to live a normal life in spite of ongoing kidney dialysis and side effects of the lupus. At age 27 he received a second...