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

By Anne Fadiman

When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover.


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