{"product_id":"9780374533403","title":"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down : A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Anne Fadiman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Now with a new Afterword from the author \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLia'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e______\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLia Lee 1982-2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Superb, informal cultural anthropology--eye-opening, readable, utterly engaging.” —\u003ci\u003eCarole Horn, The Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a book that should be deeply disturbing to anyone who has given so much as a moment's thought to the state of American medicine. But it is much more . . . People are presented as [Fadiman] saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility.” —\u003ci\u003eSherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \u003c\/i\u003echanged how doctors see themselves and how they see their patients. Anne Fadiman celebrates the complexity and the individuality of the human interactions that make up the practice of medicine while simultaneously pointing out directions for change and breaking readers' hearts with the tragedies of cultural displacement, medical limitations, and futile good intentions.” —\u003ci\u003ePerri Klass, M.D., author of A Not Entirely Benign Procedure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner (1997), Winner L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner (1997), Winner National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner (1997), Winner Boston Book Review - Winner (1998)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374533403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40647635108046,"sku":"9780374533403","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_44d0f383-9718-424a-8c0e-bdb5c37f73f0.jpg?v=1639186754","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374533403","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}