The unwinding of the miracle - Julie Yip-Williams

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'Julie Yip-Williams conquered blindness and adversity only to be struck down. Her book is heartbreaking and necessary.' Guardian

'Eloquent, gutting and at times disarmingly funny ... a magnificent writer.' New York Times

Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of 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.

Growing out of a blog Julie kept for the last four years of her life, The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a
vigorous life told through the prism of imminent death, of a life lived vividly
and cut too short. With
glorious humour, bracing honesty and the cleansing power
of well-deployed anger, her story is inspiring and instructive, delightful and
shattering. More than just a tale about cancer, it's about truth and honesty, fear and pain, our dreams, our jealousies. 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 put her affairs in order and prepared to die.

'A searing memoir ... I didn't know Julie, but in these pages I grew to love her.' Lucy Kalanithi