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Name: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Author: Anne Fadiman
Year: 1997
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Popularity: 5.9
Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Award winners, Science, Biographies

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ISBN:
9780374533403
0374533407
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 1997.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest in 1997.

Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility."
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