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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
EW Review: "Clear-eyed, warm-hearted, and eloquent, Fadiman tells a transfixing story of clashing cultures, in this account of a sick Hmong immigrant girl and the San Joaquin Valley doctors who tried to treat her."
EW's comments regarding this book are a little misleading. Yes....the story is about Lia Lee, a Hmong girl with a complicated seizure disorder; however, a great deal of this book is about the Hmong people, their struggles, their culture, etc. I was riveted by the story of Lia but this book is really an anthropological study....
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My feeling are divided on this one...
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