The Resource The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after, Julie Yip-Williams
The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after, Julie Yip-Williams
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The item The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after, Julie Yip-Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- "Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then 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 at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, 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. Motherhood, marriage, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, grief, jealousy, anger, comfort, pain, disease--there is simply nothing this book is not about. Growing out of a blog Julie has kept through the past four years of her life (undertaken because she couldn't find the guidance she needed through her disease), this is the story of a life lived so well, and cut too short. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep. With glorious humor, beautiful and bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams has set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 315 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780525511359
- Label
- The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
- Title
- The unwinding of the miracle
- Title remainder
- a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
- Statement of responsibility
- Julie Yip-Williams
- Subject
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- Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer | Patients -- United States -- Biography
- trueColon cancer
- Large type books
- trueRefugees, Vietnamese
- trueSoutheast Asian Americans
- trueSoutheast Asian people
- Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography
- trueVietnamese Americans
- Autobiographies
- trueBoat people (Southeast Asian refugees)
- Vietnamese Americans -- Biography
- trueWomen with cancer
- Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then 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 at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, 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. Motherhood, marriage, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, grief, jealousy, anger, comfort, pain, disease--there is simply nothing this book is not about. Growing out of a blog Julie has kept through the past four years of her life (undertaken because she couldn't find the guidance she needed through her disease), this is the story of a life lived so well, and cut too short. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep. With glorious humor, beautiful and bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams has set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life"--
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2019
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10748938
- Cataloging source
- PUL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-2018
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Yip-Williams, Julie
- Dewey number
- 973/.04959220092
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.V53
- LC item number
- Y57 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Yip-Williams, Julie
- Vietnamese Americans
- Colon (Anatomy)
- Terminally ill
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
- Label
- The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after, Julie Yip-Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525511359
- Lccn
- 2018031944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1057730873
- (OCoLC)1057730873
- Label
- The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after, Julie Yip-Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 315 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525511359
- Lccn
- 2018031944
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1057730873
- (OCoLC)1057730873
Subject
- Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer | Patients -- United States -- Biography
- trueColon cancer
- Large type books
- trueRefugees, Vietnamese
- trueSoutheast Asian Americans
- trueSoutheast Asian people
- Terminally ill -- United States -- Biography
- trueVietnamese Americans
- Autobiographies
- trueBoat people (Southeast Asian refugees)
- Vietnamese Americans -- Biography
- trueWomen with cancer
- Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018
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