Reading the World Book Club at Books Inc. in Mountain View October 24, 2007

Reading the World Book Club discusses The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman.

When three-month-old Lia Lee, the daughter of Hmong refugees, arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither they nor their Western trained doctors were prepared. Lia Lee’s story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication.