Title: The Unwinding of the Miracle
Description: "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"--
Subjects: Cancer, patients, biography, Lawyers, biography, Terminally ill, biography, Vietnamese americans, Blind, biography, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2019-02-24, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Biography, Colon (Anatomy), Cancer, Patients, Terminally ill, Américains d'origine vietnamienne, Biographies, Malades en phase terminale, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Asian Americans