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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

July 1, 2025 by Fiat.Luxury 1 Comment

This description of this book on Amazon is “an account of the unbridgeable gulf between a family of Hmong refugees and their American doctors.” It is that!  And it is also more than that. Heart-wrenching and illuminating, it’s also about culture and love and pride and science and humanity. Lia Lee, a Hmong child whose family moved to California, suffered from epilepsy. Her first seizure was when she was only months old. When her parents took her to the hospital, there was a total language […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: anne fadiman, hmong, the spirit catches you and you fall down, western medicine

Fiat.Luxury's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: anne fadiman, hmong, the spirit catches you and you fall down, western medicine ·
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Book-culiarities: The book is fine, but I turned this review into a survey on bookly habits.

March 10, 2017 by vel veeter 7 Comments

This book is fine. It’s a fine book. It’s a book about books, and this is a website about books, but it’s not profound, but it is charming. It was short, and it did not take much time to read and it made me feel nice about my books and my reading. But I thought it would be more interesting to think on some of the topics in the the book and create a questionnaire for readers here to think over and answer as you […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: anne fadiman, ex libris

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:88 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: anne fadiman, ex libris ·
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