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

✍ Scribed by Fadiman, Anne


Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Cnib
Year
1998;2012
Tongue
English
Weight
264 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0616669135

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✦ Synopsis


Born in California of Laotian (Hmong) parents, Lia suffers from epileptic seizures that began at age three months. As traditional Hmong medicine is not available, Lia's parents take her to American doctors. Neither parental love nor the doctors' sense of duty can transcend the cultural barriers and misconceptions that complicate Lia's medical care. 1997.