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 […]
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
