The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Contributor(s): Fadiman, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374533407 ISBN-13: 9780374533403 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues - Social Science | Minority Studies |
Dewey: 306.461 |
LCCN: 2013370009 |
Series: FSG Classics |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.70 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Now with a new Afterword from the author Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fadiman, Anne: - Anne Fadiman is the author of The Wine Lover's Daughter, a memoir about her father (FSG, 2017). Her first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (FSG, 1997), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. Fadiman has also written two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris, and is the editor of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (all published by FSG). She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale. |