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

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-04-24
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0374533407
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down pdf
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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 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. The current edition, published for the book's fifteenth anniversary, includes a new afterword by the author that provides updates on the major characters along with reflections on how they have changed Fadiman's life and attitudes.Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderst Download The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Edition: 9th
Release: 2011-08-16
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1605477087
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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