Cultural clashes between the doctors and parents of Lia Lee, an epileptic girl living with her Laotian Hmong refugee family in central California, are at the heart of Anne Fadiman’s enduring book, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.”
Cultural clashes between the doctors and parents of Lia Lee, an epileptic girl living with her Laotian Hmong refugee family in central California, are at the heart of Anne Fadiman’s enduring book, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.”
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