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A review by cheekylaydee
Unwinding Of The Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
4.0
OK be ready with the tissues by the end of this one, as Julie Yip-Williams takes us on the emotional rollercoaster that has been her life.
Surviving attempted infantcide, blindness, and a harrowing journey across the seas as a refugee of Vietnam Julie has finally gotten through her trials, has a loving husband and two children, a career as a lawyer, financial stability only to be struck down with colon cancer at the age of 37.
Everything that Julie is thinking and feeling is laid bare on the page with a startling honesty that leaves you reeling. This isn't a woman who wants to be a martyr,.She is in turns angry, upset self-pitying and above all honest about what she is going through. There's no holding back it is a brutal and honest account of a relentless and exhausting battle with cancer and Julie tells it with a rawness that is rare in other books of this kind. While not being able to empathise I appreciated her no holds barred approach to her narrative. Not many books make me cry and maybe I'm just a little emotional right now but this one had me in tears at the end. It made me wish I had known this extraordinary woman, and I felt that within these pages, I got a little glimpse of who she was.
Please read this book, it's extraordinary.
Surviving attempted infantcide, blindness, and a harrowing journey across the seas as a refugee of Vietnam Julie has finally gotten through her trials, has a loving husband and two children, a career as a lawyer, financial stability only to be struck down with colon cancer at the age of 37.
Everything that Julie is thinking and feeling is laid bare on the page with a startling honesty that leaves you reeling. This isn't a woman who wants to be a martyr,.She is in turns angry, upset self-pitying and above all honest about what she is going through. There's no holding back it is a brutal and honest account of a relentless and exhausting battle with cancer and Julie tells it with a rawness that is rare in other books of this kind. While not being able to empathise I appreciated her no holds barred approach to her narrative. Not many books make me cry and maybe I'm just a little emotional right now but this one had me in tears at the end. It made me wish I had known this extraordinary woman, and I felt that within these pages, I got a little glimpse of who she was.
Please read this book, it's extraordinary.