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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. East of Eden by John Steinbeck A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Educated by Tara Westover
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Book cover for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
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When I asked him why he didn’t usually force his Hmong patients to comply with conventional American medical practices, he shrugged and said, “It’s their body.”
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