The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two CulturesModern · Nonfiction, Medicine, Anthropology
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
1997 · 341 pages · Nonfiction
60
Modern
★ 4.21 on Goodreads · 91K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (1997). 4.21★ from 91K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
60Must-Read Score
- Critics44 out of 100 · counts 35%+18
- Readers75 out of 100 · counts 50%+42
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #21 of the 100 science and ideas books we rank
- #90 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #254 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (1997)
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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