The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after / by Julie Yip-Williams.
"Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. Motherhood, marriage, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, grief, jealousy, anger, comfort, pain, disease--there is simply nothing this book is not about. Growing out of a blog Julie has kept through the past four years of her life (undertaken because she couldn't find the guidance she needed through her disease), this is the story of a life lived so well, and cut too short. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep. With glorious humor, beautiful and bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams has set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525511359 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0525511350 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 315 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- Death, part one -- Life -- Summer and Fall 2013: The odds ; Seeing ghosts ; The warfare, and the weapons ; Deals with God ; ; CEA, pet, MRI... ; The bliss in making the journey alone ; The secret ; Moments of happiness ; An adventure with the Chinese medicine man -- 2014: The surly bonds of earth ; The crossroads of the world ; Hope ; I am lost ; A nightmare ; The hand of God ; A love story ; Fate and fortune ; Numbers, a reassessment ; Take your victories where you can ; The cancer is in my lungs -- 2015: From darkness to strength ; "Keeping it in the stomach" ; A day in my life ; Invincibility ; Dreams reborn ; Solitude ; A game of clue ; The gift of grief -- 2016: In which the Yips come to America ; Living ; Insanity ; Chipper ; Courage and love ; Hate -- 2017: Faith, a lesson of history ; Home ; Believe ; Pain ; Death, part two ; Preparing ; Love -- 2018: The unwinding of the miracle -- Epilogue, by Joshua Williams. |
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Subject: | Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018. Vietnamese Americans > Biography. Colon (Anatomy) > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography. Terminally ill > United States > Biography. |
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