Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped
euthanasia planned by her grandmother, only to have to 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 gave her
partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated
lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at the age of
thirty-seven, with two little girls still 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 - this is a book about a
life lived well and cut cruelly short. With glorious humour,
bracing honesty and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger,
Julie has set the stage for her final legacy: the story of her
life. Inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering, this is
not just a tale about cancer. It's about truth and honesty, fear
and pain, our dreams, our jealousies and our anger. And it's about
how to say goodbye to your children and a life you love. Starting
as a need to understand the disease, it has evolved into a powerful
story about living - even as Julie puts her affairs in order and
prepares to die.
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