The unwinding of the miracle [LP] a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
"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 surge...
| Main Author: | Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018 (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
2019.
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
545 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781432863852 1432863851 |
| Author Notes: |
She received a bachelor's degree in English and Asian Studies from Williams College in Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard Law School. In 2002, she joined the law firm Cleary Gottlieb in New York and specialized in corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. In 2013, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She wrote a blog about having Stage IV colon cancer. Her blog will be turned into a memoir. She died from metastatic colon cancer on March 19, 2018 at the age of 42. (Bowker Author Biography) |