The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

In the 1980s, Lia is a young member of Merced, California’s Hmong population, a group of immigrants and refugees who had previously lived in the highlands of Laos. OL19979306W Page_number_confidence 94.62 Pages 374 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210618125207 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 496 Scandate 20210616152827 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780374533403 Tts_version 4. The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down is a work of literary nonfiction that chronicles the life and medical troubles of a young girl named Lia Lee. However, through this narrative, Anne Fadiman. We watch as these folks are driven from China for refusing to assimilate its culture, then eventually make their way to the mountains of Laos. Essentially, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is about the medical struggles of a child with epilepsy. A good portion of the book is spent recounting Hmong history. Urn:lcp:spiritcatchesyou0000fadi_w2z7:lcpdf:aab1873c-8f41-44a2-b42d-f409165b24a6 There are two different stories happening in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.

When Lia was around three months old, her older sister Yer slammed a door and Lia had her first seizure.

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:00:49 Boxid IA40138123 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down tells the story of Lia Lee, a Hmong child with epilepsy, whose tragic demise reveals the dangers of a lack of cross-cultural communication in the medical profession. Fadiman writes that Foua is still proud of the fact that she gave birth alone to her Laos-born children Nao Kao only brought cups of hot water if her mouth was parched.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman