{"product_id":"9780525511359","title":"The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rare and inspiring memoir by a young mother with Stage IV metastatic cancer that challenges the pieties with which we usually write and talk about death, and serves as a guide not just through the ordeal of disease, but through the universal experience of struggle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn 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 UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding of the Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. Motherhood, marriage, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, grief, jealousy, anger, comfort, pain, disease--there is simply nothing this book is \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e about. Growing out of a blog Julie has kept through the past four years of her life (undertaken because she couldn't find the guidance she needed through her disease), this is the story of a life lived so well, and cut too short. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith glorious humor, beautiful and bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams has set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018355425520,"sku":"9780525511359","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525511359_p0.jpg?v=1763710742","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525511359","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}