The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of the Lees, a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli province, Laos, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California. In 2005, Robert Entenmann of St.