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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 1998
- PAPER
- 352 PAGES
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The title refers to the Hmong explanation for seizures. It's the story of a child with epilepsy, the daughter of Hmong refugees in California and a tragedy wrought by cultural mistranslation. Fadiman, the editor of American Scholar, got to know her loving family and the hard-working doctors that cared for Lia, and gracefully documents the clash between best interests. It's a sympathetic look at the Hmong culture, history and worldview that reveals much about ours as well.
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