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

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

Anne Fadiman

341 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

Laura Kaplan

314 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction feminism history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

22 hours, 17 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction health history science informative slow-paced
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

The Farming of Bones

Edwidge Danticat

312 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon

962 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
Into These Hands: Wisdom from Midwives by Geradine Simkins

Into These Hands: Wisdom from Midwives

Geradine Simkins

300 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction health informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver

436 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan

250 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction health memoir psychology emotional informative medium-paced
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce

The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption

Kathryn Joyce

352 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction politics religion reflective slow-paced
Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America by Rickie Solinger

Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America

Rickie Solinger

303 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0lenawood's review
nonfiction feminism gender history challenging informative reflective medium-paced