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Author Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018, author.

Title The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after / Julie Yip-Williams.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2019]
©2019

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 YIP-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY YIP-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. YIP-WILLIAMS, J.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B YIP-WILLIAMS, JULIE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO YIP-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY YIP-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B YIP-WILLIAMS J.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B YIP-WILLIAMS JULIE Y    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B YIP-WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B YIP-WILLIAMS, JULIE    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 315 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Death, part one -- Life -- The odds -- Seeing ghosts -- The warfare, and the weapons -- Deals with God -- CEA, PET, MRI -- The bliss in making the journey alone -- The secret -- Moments of happiness -- An adventure with the Chinese medicine man -- The surly bonds of earth -- The crossroads of the world -- Hope -- 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 come to America -- Living -- Insanity -- Chipper -- Courage and love -- Hate -- Faith, a lesson of history -- Home -- Believe -- Pain -- Death, part two -- Preparing -- Love -- The unwinding of the miracle.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018.
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography.
Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00868411
Terminally ill. (OCoLC)fst01147878
Vietnamese Americans. (OCoLC)fst01166663
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780525511359 (hardback)
0525511350 (hardback)
9780525511366 (ebook)
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