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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams
This book. Whew. It just gutted me.
I've been trying to figure out why I'm so into memoirs about death and dying, and I think with this book, I finally figured it out. Julie Yip-Williams holds nothing back. As a child, she almost died when her grandmother told her parents that she would be better off dead due to the cataracts in her eyes. But she survived a boat from Vietnam to America, got the help she needed, and got some sight back. She became a lawyer, got married, and had two amazing little girls. She's brave and smart and completely authentic with her journey through Stage IV cancer, and she confronts death as I imagine any of us would - wavering, not wanting to go, and yet also walking into it with open eyes. I realized, as I cried through the end of the book, that people like Julie and Nina Riggs (THE BRIGHT HOUR) and Paul Kalanithi (WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR) are the ones giving us the best of themselves. By sharing their stories, they are helping all of us deal with what we will all one day go through. Julie writes about the unwinding of the miracle - about how she brought her babies into the world, and the miracle began on those days. And death, the end of the miracle, is just as important for us to honor as a transition into a new and unexplained world.
I've been trying to figure out why I'm so into memoirs about death and dying, and I think with this book, I finally figured it out. Julie Yip-Williams holds nothing back. As a child, she almost died when her grandmother told her parents that she would be better off dead due to the cataracts in her eyes. But she survived a boat from Vietnam to America, got the help she needed, and got some sight back. She became a lawyer, got married, and had two amazing little girls. She's brave and smart and completely authentic with her journey through Stage IV cancer, and she confronts death as I imagine any of us would - wavering, not wanting to go, and yet also walking into it with open eyes. I realized, as I cried through the end of the book, that people like Julie and Nina Riggs (THE BRIGHT HOUR) and Paul Kalanithi (WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR) are the ones giving us the best of themselves. By sharing their stories, they are helping all of us deal with what we will all one day go through. Julie writes about the unwinding of the miracle - about how she brought her babies into the world, and the miracle began on those days. And death, the end of the miracle, is just as important for us to honor as a transition into a new and unexplained world.