![]() ![]() ![]() She had about 20 more over the next few months, and three emergency room visits. At the age of three months, Lia Lee had an epileptic seizure. The story told in ''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,'' by Anne Fadiman, a freelance journalist and the newly named editor of The American Scholar, is that of Lia Lee, born on July 19, 1982, in the Merced Community MedicalĬenter. It has no heroes or villains, but it has an abundance of innocent suffering, It is a tale of culture clashes,įear and grief in the face of change, parental love, her doctors' sense of duty, and misperceptions compounded daily until they became colossal misunderstandings. This was a historic transition, and this child's story is in many ways her people's tale in microcosm - and taken to an extreme. The town of Merced in the fertile San Joaquin Valley of California. It is the tale of an immigrant child whose family went in one generation from traditional tribal life in the war-torn mountains of Laos to a bustling existence in Us more than melodrama, then this fine book recounts a poignant tragedy. ![]() When medicine butts up against traditional belief, tragedy ensues.į tragedy is a conflict of two goods, if it entails the unfolding of deep human tendencies in a cultural context that makes the outcome seem inevitable, if it moves ![]()
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