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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down

Paperback • 1998 • English • 1. edition

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

By Anne Fadiman

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About the book

When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and be...Show more

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ISBN

9780374525644

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published year

1998

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down

Format

Paperback

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