The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after / by Julie Yip-Williams.
Publication details: New York : Random House, 2019.Description: 336 pagesISBN:- 9780525511359
- 973/.04959220092 23
- E184.V53 Y57 2019
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
900 - 999 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | BIOG 973.049 YIP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001131979 |
Browsing Hanover Public Library shelves, Shelving location: Shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
BIOG 971.8 MOWA Bay of spirits : a love story / | BIOG 971.9 FRAS True north rising / | BIOG 971.93 KAKF Stoneface : memoir of a defiant Dene / | BIOG 973.049 YIP The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after / | BIOG 973.509 COOP Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty / | BIOG 973.7 BROK Broken shackles : old man Henson from slavery to freedom / | BIOG 973.7092 GOO Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / |
Life -- The odds -- Seeing ghosts -- The warfare, and the weapons -- Deals with God -- Faith, a lesson of history -- CEA, pet, MRI -- The secret -- Moments of happiness -- An adventure with the Chinese medicine man -- The surly bonds of earth -- The crossroads of the world -- 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 -- 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 -- In which the Yips become Americans -- Living -- Insanity -- Chipper -- Courage and love -- Hate -- Home -- Believe -- Pain -- Death -- Preparing -- Love -- The unwinding of the miracle.
"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"--
There are no comments on this title.