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The Unwinding of the Miracle
- A memoir of life, death and everything that comes after
Engelsk Paperback
The Unwinding of the Miracle
- A memoir of life, death and everything that comes after
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781787630406
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787630404
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
14 feb 2019
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
14 feb 2019
Forfatter(e):
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