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Kirtland Community College Library | RA 418.5 .T73 F33 2012 | 30775305524184 | General Collection | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 9780374533403
- ISBN: 0374533407
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ix, 355 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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General Note: | Includes new afterword by the author. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. |
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Formatted Contents Note: | Birth -- Fish soup -- The spirit catches you and ... Read More |
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Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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.