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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

by Anne Fadiman , Fadiman

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      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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      • Media: Paperback Book, 368 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
      • Edition: Unknown
      • ISBN-10: 0374533407
      • Publication Date: Apr. 24th, 2012
      • ISBN-13: 9780374533403
      • Dimensions: 5.54 x 8.29 x 0.99 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 0.68 lbs
      • Categories: General Parenting Family Relationships Medical Ethics General Minority Studies

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