The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures /
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 under...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2012.
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. -- Provided by Publisher on back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Includes new afterword by the author. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 355 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374533403 0374533407 |