The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

Synopsis

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--