Description: Some shelfwear (smudging) 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 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
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Location: Chico, California
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Book Title: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down: A Hmong Child, Her Ame
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Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down : A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Neurology, Communication Studies, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 1998
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0.4 Oz
Author: Anne Fadiman
Subject Area: Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Medical
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
