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

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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 circle of relatives 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 once very best for Lia, however the ignorance 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. The current edition, published for the book’s fifteenth anniversary, features a new afterword by the writer that provides updates at the major characters in conjunction with reflections on how they’ve changed Fadiman’s life and attitudes.
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