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

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

read as an assignment for a  cultural competency course but i thoroughly enjoyed reading it. a great book, highly suggested for american healthcare workers

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and War

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, Animal death, Death, Colonisation, Blood, and Child death