NYT Best Nonfiction 2019

 

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1. The unwinding of the miracle: a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after

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Author:
Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
"Born 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...