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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision...
ISBN: 9780374267810 | 0374267812
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: 9/30/1997
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 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 ... MORE
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| Note on Hmong Orthography, Pronunciation, and Quotations | 289 | (2) | |||
| Notes on Sources | 291 | (20) | |||
| Bibliography | 311 | (14) | |||
| Acknowledgments | 325 | (4) | |||
| Index | 329 |
Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down moves from hospital corridors to healing cereomies, and from the hill country of Laos to the living rooms of Merced, uncovering in its path the complex sources and implications of two dramatically clashing worldviews.
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