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      The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

      by Anne Fadiman
      Published
      Oct 1998
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      352
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      Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

      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 Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy.

      Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.

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      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.

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      First Edition Oct 1998 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374975807 ISBN10 0374975809
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      Oct 1998 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9781429931113 ISBN10 1429931116
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      Oct 1998 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN10 B003OYIA9M
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