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mlinton 's review for:
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams
This quote from the book sums up why I found it so powerful:
“I vowed when I started this blog that I would endeavor to be brutally honest about who I am and what it is for me to battle cancer, that I would strive against my very human egoist tendencies to prop up some persona of myself as perpetually inspiring, strong or wise….I wanted them to see my real self, a self that, in addition to experiencing many moments of joy, gratitude and insight, was often tormented by fear, anger, hurt, despair and darkness….I wanted to detail and explore that darkness, to let others out there who I knew experienced a similar desolate and lonely darkness know that they were and are not alone. There is a natural intuitive fear of darkness; people who are gripped by it are ashamed to speak of it, while those who are free of it for however long wish to run from it as if it were a contagious plague. If the cost of my brutal honesty about my darkness is a highly unflattering picture of me that repels, so be it.”
“I vowed when I started this blog that I would endeavor to be brutally honest about who I am and what it is for me to battle cancer, that I would strive against my very human egoist tendencies to prop up some persona of myself as perpetually inspiring, strong or wise….I wanted them to see my real self, a self that, in addition to experiencing many moments of joy, gratitude and insight, was often tormented by fear, anger, hurt, despair and darkness….I wanted to detail and explore that darkness, to let others out there who I knew experienced a similar desolate and lonely darkness know that they were and are not alone. There is a natural intuitive fear of darkness; people who are gripped by it are ashamed to speak of it, while those who are free of it for however long wish to run from it as if it were a contagious plague. If the cost of my brutal honesty about my darkness is a highly unflattering picture of me that repels, so be it.”