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

Fadiman, Anne

 
9780374525644: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0374525641 ISBN 13: 9780374525644
Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

A tragic tale of cultural differences chronicles the fight over the proper care of an epilectic Hmong child between a California medical center and her tradition-minded Laotian refugee family. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Anne Fadiman is the editor of The American Scholar. Recipient of a National Magazine Award for reporting and a John S. Knight Fellowship in Journalism, she has written for Civilization, Harper's, Life, and The New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City.


Anne Fadiman is the author of two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris, and the editor of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down received a National Book Critics Circle Award, an L.A. Times Book Prize, and a Salon Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.

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Verlag
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374525641
ISBN 13 
9780374525644
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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