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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

by: Anne Fadiman

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780374533403
ISBN: 0374533407
Item Dimensions: 00730
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: April 24, 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia’s parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman’s compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.

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