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The unwinding of the miracle [LP] : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after
by Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018 (Author)
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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... Full description
Table of 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.
