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

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

Anne Fadiman

341 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWhen 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 doc...

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informative: 88%

emotional: 69%

reflective: 59%

challenging: 55%

sad: 49%

inspiring: 21%

tense: 16%

hopeful: 13%

dark: 8%

adventurous: 3%

funny: 1%


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