Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Name: Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Brand: Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd
SKU: 9780374533403
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By Anne Fadiman

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down tells the poignant story of Lia Lee, a Hmong child with severe epilepsy, caught in a tragic cultural clash between her refugee family and a California hospital. Anne Fadiman compassionately explores the misunderstandings that arise when medical practices and cultural beliefs collide, revealing the human frailty and nobility behind this conflict.
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Ideal for readers interested in medical humanities, cultural studies, healthcare professionals, and those seeking insightful narratives about cross-cultural communication and empathy.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.

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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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"Superb, informal cultural anthropology--eye-opening, readable, utterly engaging." -- The Washington Post Book World

"A deeply disturbing yet profoundly human portrait of American medicine and cultural conflict." -- The New Republic

"Changed how doctors see themselves and their patients, celebrating human complexity while pointing to necessary change." -- Perri Klass, M.D.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780374533403

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 April 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 143.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 326g

Pages: 368

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Anne Fadiman Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Anne Fadiman was born in New York City and was raised in Connecticut and Los Angeles. After graduating from Harvard, she worked as a wilderness instructor in Wyoming before returning to New York to write. She has been a staff writer at Life, editor-at-large of Civilization, and editor of The American Scholar. Fadiman is also the author of Ex Libris and At Large and At Small, and the editor of Rereadings. She now lives with her family in western Massachusetts and serves as the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.