# The Unwinding of the Miracle

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- Authors: [Julie Yip-Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-yip-williams)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-02-14
- Genres: Memoirs, Family and health, Popular medicine and health, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Lifestyle and personal style guides

## Description

Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia planned by 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. 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 - this is a book about a life lived well and cut cruelly short. With glorious humour, bracing honesty and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie has set the stage for her final legacy: the story of her life. Inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering, this is not just a tale about cancer. It’s about truth and honesty, fear and pain, our dreams, our jealousies and our anger. 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 puts her affairs in order and prepares to die.

## Editions

### The Unwinding of the Miracle

- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-05-2551-137-3
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2020-03-10
- Language: en_US

### The Unwinding of the Miracle

- Publisher: Transworld Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7355-864-9
- Published: 2019-02-14
- Language: en_GB

### The Unwinding of the Miracle

- Publisher: Bantam Press
- ISBN: 978-17-8763-040-6
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2019-02-14
- Language: en_GB

### The Unwinding of the Miracle

- Publisher: Transworld Digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 11 h 15 min
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- ISBN: 978-14-7356-768-9
- Published: 2019-02-14
- Language: en_GB