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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Cover of The Spirit Catches You and
Anne Fadiman

In chapters that alternate between the history of the Hmong and a highly personal story of a young Hmong girl who is severly ill with seizures, we learn about Hmong culture and the dramatic clash between it and American medicine in the early 1990s. The full title is The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.

Author category: 
Female Author
Date of publication: 
1997