TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yip-Williams,Julie
TI  - The unwinding of the miracle: a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after 
T2  - Thorndike Press large print lifestyles
SN  - 9781432863852 (hardback)
U1  - 305.8959/22073 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
KW  - Yip-Williams, Julie,
KW  - Vietnamese Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Colon (Anatomy)
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - United States
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Large type books
N2  - 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 three hundred 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 thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began
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