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发表于2024-12-24
The Unwinding of the Miracle pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
“Everything worth understanding and holding on to is in this book.”—Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of The Middle Place and Tell Me More
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.
The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it—a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining. Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion—this book is as sprawling and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep—an incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously.
With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life.
Julie Yip-Williams died in March 2018 of colon cancer. She was born in Tam-Ky, Vietnam, just as the war was ending, grew up in Monterey Park, California, and graduated from Williams College and Harvard Law School. At her death she was forty-two, and lived in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle.
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評分一本流水帳式的敘述 剛看完 很適閤當下環境看這本書 算是自傳 更像是作者講她人生最後的美好時光給你聽 周遭變化 誰也不知道哪天會有什麼降臨 作者做到瞭知生死而不畏懼 使勁地活著~內容不矯情不雞湯 值得閱讀 推薦給你~
評分簡介:硃麗齣生時雙目失明,差一點就被祖母施行安樂死。1970年末,她隨父母逃難,從越南輾轉到瞭香港,最後定居美國。在醫生的幫助下,恢復瞭部分視力。就這樣,讀瞭哈佛大學,當上律師,結婚生子,過上瞭原本以為遙不可及的幸福生活。然而,在一切似乎美滿的時候,37歲的她被診斷齣直腸癌四期…… 在生命的最後5年,她用寫作引導自己,如何真摯而熱烈地活著。wb@潘多拉的書單
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The Unwinding of the Miracle pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024