The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

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

Anne Fadiman

13 hours, 37 minutes first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her do...

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informative 89%
emotional 70%
challenging 54%
reflective 54%
sad 50%
inspiring 22%
tense 16%
hopeful 12%
dark 9%
adventurous 2%

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slow 39%
fast 4%

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