A review by webdoyenne
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams

4.0

In a time of some personal turmoil (blessedly, not health-related), this book helped me. I'm not sure why or how. Some people read fluffy/upbeat stuff to cheer them up, but that doesn't work for me. The author is a complex, amazing person, and the world is worse off for her not being in it. Coming from an unbelievably wretched start in life as an ethnic-Chinese refugee from Vietnam who was blind, she achieved great academic and professional success and a wonderful family live of privilege in NYC. After the cancer diagnosis (in her late 30s), it was pretty much all downhill. She catalogues her physical decline and roiling emotions without sugar-coating things. There is some repetition regarding early family life and her travels as a single young woman.