The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Nature_Gift_Guide and Business and Pleasure

and Business and Pleasure

With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945

For Flavia

Threads of fierce rivalry were woven into the fabric of the sisters' relationship

As Brian treats her wounds

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Nature_Gift_Guide and Business and PleasureNow with a new Afterword from the author 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