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marieakeith 's review for:
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams
Beautiful and heartbreaking. A girl born blind in Vietnam grows up to be a Harvard educated lawyer living in NYC. In her early 40s, when her two daughters are <6yo, she is diagnosed with cancer and given a finite time to live. She writes this memoir, primarily for her children, which was published 1yr after her death.
Oddly, as a 25yo woman, many sentiments of the memoir and atributes of Julie Yip-Williams deeply resonated with me. As a young woman, Julie solo-traveled to all seven continents, and throughout her life had a striking independence. When reflecting on her impending death, Yip-Williams never avoided masking her true emotions and accounted a wide range of reactions she had during her last years. For me, the memoir’s biggest take-away was the way she viewed her death as the “unwinding of the miracle” and how death is the ultimate solo-travel adventure.
Oddly, as a 25yo woman, many sentiments of the memoir and atributes of Julie Yip-Williams deeply resonated with me. As a young woman, Julie solo-traveled to all seven continents, and throughout her life had a striking independence. When reflecting on her impending death, Yip-Williams never avoided masking her true emotions and accounted a wide range of reactions she had during her last years. For me, the memoir’s biggest take-away was the way she viewed her death as the “unwinding of the miracle” and how death is the ultimate solo-travel adventure.