The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Reprint

Description: 355 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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. Lias 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 Fadimans compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. The current edition, published for the books fifteenth anniversary, includes a new afterword by the author that provides updates on the major characters along with reflections on how they have changed Fadimans life and attitudes.

ISBN: 9780374533403