Her grandmother tried to end her story before page one. She wrote 42 chapters anyway.
A dying mother's letter to her daughters about pain is a must-read for anyone facing uncertainty
Julie Yip-Williams was born blind in Vietnam in 1976; her grandmother paid an herbalist to kill her, but he refused. The family fled to California, where surgery partially restored her sight. She earned a Harvard Law degree, became a corporate lawyer, and at 37 was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Before her death in Brooklyn on March 19, 2018, at 42, she wrote an open letter to her daughters Mia and Isabelle about grief and pain. Her memoir, The Unwinding of the Miracle, became a New York Times bestseller.
Source: A dying mother's letter to her daughters about pain is a must-read for anyone facing uncertainty — Upworthy
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