The most beneficial reading of Fadiman’s The Spirit requires seeing the work as a writer’s personal journey in reporting back to her culture. Overlooking these criticisms blindly believes one author’s words, but accepting them fully misinterprets the entire text. The book has been heavily criticized for various biases, sympathies, and idealization. Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a non-fiction exploration of culture and medicine that tells the tragic story of the Lee family and their daughter Lia, an epileptic Hmong girl.
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