Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

341 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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Lia Lee was born in 1982 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, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doc...

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