The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
Andrea recommended this to me at the Holiday Bornschlegel book exchange - i finally picked it up, and read it in just a few days. The book is more than the story of a Hmong (a group of people from Laos) family and their struggle with Western medicine through the treatment of their daughter Lia's severe epilepsy; it's an epigraph on spirituality, immigration, and the struggle of two cultures to find common ground in Merced. Highly recommended - this book had me noticing and examining assumptions that i didn't know i was making.
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