Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

341 pages paperback 1997

17 editions

nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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Lia Lee was born in 1982 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 doc...

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