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100 1 $aYip-Williams, Julie,$d1976-2018,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe Unwinding of the Miracle :$bA Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After /$cJulie Yip-Williams.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2019.
300 $ax, 315 p. ;$c25 cm.
505 0 $aDeath, part one -- Life -- The odds -- Seeing ghosts -- The warfare, and the weapons -- Deals with God -- 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 -- 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 become Americans -- 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.
520 $a"Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. Motherhood, marriage, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, grief, jealousy, anger, comfort, pain, disease--there is simply nothing this book is not about. Growing out of a blog Julie has kept through the past four years of her life (undertaken because she couldn't find the guidance she needed through her disease), this is the story of a life lived so well, and cut too short. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep. With glorious humor, beautiful and bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams has set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life"--$cProvided by publisher.
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650 0$aVietnamese Americans$xBiography.
650 0$aColon (Anatomy)$xCancer$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aTerminally ill$zUnited States$vBiography.