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Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility."

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman ... THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN (Chapter 1) Birth If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers ... The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child ... Buy The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) on Amazon.com FREE SHIPPING on ... The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child ... 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 ...