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.
Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home..
She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012.
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.
Lia\'s parents and her Doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy.
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
