The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors,

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. ______ 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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EAN: 9780374533403

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Item Length: 20.6 cm

Book Title: Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Item Height: 210mm

Item Width: 140mm

Author: Anne Fadiman

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Popular Medicine

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Publication Year: 2012

Item Weight: 319g

Number of Pages: 368 Pages