The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 545 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
"That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to flee with her family the political upheaval of her country in the late 1970s. 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. She would go on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed would be impossible. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began." --Amazon.com.
Series: Thorndike Press large print lifestyles.
Contents:
Summer and fall: 2013 -- 2014 -- 2015 -- 2016 -- 2017 -- 2018.
Death, part one -- Life -- The odds -- Seeing ghosts -- The warfare, and the weapons -- Deals with God -- Faith, a lesson of history -- 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 -- Faith, a lesson of history -- Hate -- Home -- Believe -- Pain -- Death -- Preparing -- Love -- The unwinding of the miracle -- Epilogue / by Joshua Williams.
Death, part one -- Life -- The odds -- Seeing ghosts -- The warfare, and the weapons -- Deals with God -- Faith, a lesson of history -- 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 -- Faith, a lesson of history -- Hate -- Home -- Believe -- Pain -- Death -- Preparing -- Love -- The unwinding of the miracle -- Epilogue / by Joshua Williams.
Subjects:
Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018.
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography.
Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018.
Vietnamese Americans -- Biography.
Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432863852
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LP BIOGRAPHY Yip-Williams, Julie | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Biography | In |
LP BIOGRAPHY Yip-Williams, Julie | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Biography | In |
LP BIOGRAPHY Yip-Williams, Julie | St. Andrews Indoors | Large Print Biography | In |