The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Anne Fadiman
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Farrar , Straus and Giroux
- Series
- FSG Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- April 24, 2012
- ISBN
- 978-0-374-53340-3
- GTIN
- 9780374533403
About
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.
Now with a new Afterword from the author.