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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Synopsis
With a new Afterword from the author…Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

This book 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.

Copyright:
2012

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
367 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780374533403
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Anne Fadiman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Language Arts, Medicine, Communication
Submitted By:
Worth Trust
Proofread By:
Worth Trust
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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