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Evening Book Club

  • 06 Dec 2021
  • 6:00 PM (CST)
  • Zoom

For Evening Book Club, we will be discussing The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman. We will meet at 6:00 on Monday, December 6 on Zoom. If you are interested, please feel free to join us even if you haven't read the book. Please contact Karen Williams (kare14will@gmail.com) if you would like to be added to the e-mail list. 

From Macmillan: "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.

Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. 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."


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