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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012Description: ix, 355 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374533403
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461
Contents:
Birth
Fish soup
The spirit catches you and you fall down
Do doctors eat brains?
Take as directed
High-velocity transcortical lead therapy
Government property
Foua and Nao Kao
A little medicine and a little neeb
War
The big one
Flight
Code X
The melting pot
Gold and dross
Why did they pick Merced?
The eight questions
The life or the soul
The sacrifice
Awards:
  • National Book Critics Circle Award
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Book Book Main Library Reference Section Circulation C 306.461 F145s 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 123695d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.

Birth

Fish soup

The spirit catches you and you fall down

Do doctors eat brains?

Take as directed

High-velocity transcortical lead therapy

Government property

Foua and Nao Kao

A little medicine and a little neeb

War

The big one

Flight

Code X

The melting pot

Gold and dross

Why did they pick Merced?

The eight questions

The life or the soul

The sacrifice

National Book Critics Circle Award

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