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    The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
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    The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
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    The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

    Written by Julie Yip-Williams

    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller and Joshua Williams

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    About this audiobook

    As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more — a powerful exhortation to the living.

    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 300 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 37, 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. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it — a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining. Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion — this audiobook is as sprawling and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is an audiobook of indelible moments, seared deep — an incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously.

    With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life.

    Editor's Note

    Book club pick…

    TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager selected Julie Yip-Williams’ posthumously published memoir as her April 2019 #ReadWithJenna pick. Jenna told TODAY, “It's a beautiful story about what it means to live. So, it's sad in some ways. But also, for us still living, it's a great reminder that life is precious, and it's a gift — and to live every single day like it's our last.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781984840974
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    • 5/5
      Thank you Julie for sharing your wisdom and your life’s journey so honestly. I’m grateful for having met you through your book. Peace to you and your family.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful wisdom shared about living Life fully through your prognosis of cancer and the inevitable death that follows.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyed the book. Well written. Makes you think. In the end you hear the husbands perspective.