The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
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New York : Random House, [2019].
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First edition.
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x, 315 pages ; 25 cm
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Meadville Public Library
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Published
New York : Random House, [2019].
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First edition.
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English

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"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"--

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Yip-Williams, J. (2019). The unwinding of the miracle: a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after (First edition.). Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018. 2019. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After. Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After Random House, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Yip-Williams, Julie. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After First edition., Random House, 2019.

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