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

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 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. The current edition, published for the book's fifteenth anniversary, includes a new afterword by the author that provides updates on the major characters along with reflections on how they have changed Fadiman's life and attitudes.

This is a well-written and heart-wrenching story about a young girl who has severe epilepsy. In this book, cultures collide for a Hmong family from Laos who live in the United States. The language, culture and healing practices of the Hmong family contrast sharply with Western Medicine. This makes the story even more complex and tragic. An excellent book for people interesting in health, medicine, neurological disorders/diseases, cultural studies and social work.

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This is not a fun read, but the writing makes what could be a dry, uncomfortable saga quite touching and engaging. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about a different culture, whether it be the culture of the Hmong people, or the culture of western medicine in the US.

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

• Paperback: 368 pages


• Author: Anne Fadiman


• ISBN-10: 0374533407


• ISBN-13: 978-0374533403


• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Later Printing edition (April 24, 2012)


• Language: English


• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1 x 8.3 inches

About the Author

Anne Fadiman was born in New York City and raised in Connecticut and Los Angeles. After graduating from Harvard, she worked as a wilderness instructor in Wyoming before returning to New York to write. She has been a staff writer at Life, editor-at-large of Civilization, and editor of The American Scholar. Fadiman is also the author of two collections of personal essays, Ex Libris and At Large and At Small, as well as the editor of Rereadings and Best American Essays 2003. She is married to the writer George Howe Colt. Fadiman lives with her family in western Massachusetts and serves as the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.

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