The Unwinding of the Miracle

Julie Yip-Williams 2019

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
terminal illness memoir cancer motherhood

Our Take

Yip-Williams was born blind in Vietnam, survived her grandmother's attempt to have her euthanised, regained partial sight, came to America, and then got colon cancer at thirty-seven. She wrote this memoir as a letter to her daughters. The unfairness is cosmic.

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