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

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This book is the story of a family with a sick child. This family immigrated from Laos after the Vietnam war. It is also, if not more so, the story of those who come to this country and do not understand our culture, and those who meet their medical, spiritual, physical needs who do not understand or try to understand their cultures.

It is thought provoking and a serious read.