The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0374533407

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.


The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Anne Fadiman
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-24 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical cen
I am a Hmong-American child
Language: en
Pages: 32
Authors: Sao Vang
Categories: Hmong (Asian people)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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Days of Obligation
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Richard Rodriguez
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action.
The Latehomecomer
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Kao Kalia Yang
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-15 - Publisher: Coffee House Press

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In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand a
I Begin My Life All Over
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Lillian Faderman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-04-13 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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I Begin My Life All Over is an oral history of 36 real-life strangers in a strange land, an intimate study of the immigrant experience in contemporary America.