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The Unwinding of the Miracle

- A memoir of life, death and everything that comes after

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 336 sider

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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.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal336
  • Udgivelsesdato14-02-2019
  • ISBN139781787630406
  • Forlag Bantam Press
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt407 g
  • Dybde2,4 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    15,3 cm
    23,4 cm

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