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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Contributor(s): Fadiman, Anne (Author)

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ISBN: 0374533407     ISBN-13: 9780374533403
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Ethics
- Social Science | Disease & Health Issues
- Social Science | Minority Studies
Dewey: 306.461
LCCN: 2013370009
Series: FSG Classics
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.70 lbs) 368 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Cultural Region - Asian
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Christian Century 10/14/2015 pg. 39
 
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Publisher Description:

Now with a new Afterword from the author

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

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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Lia Lee 1982-2012

Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.


Contributor Bio(s): Fadiman, Anne: - Anne Fadiman is the author of The Wine Lover's Daughter, a memoir about her father (FSG, 2017). Her first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (FSG, 1997), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. Fadiman has also written two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris, and is the editor of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (all published by FSG). She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.
 
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