If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers and sisters were born, her mother would have squatted on the floor of the house that her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Release date: September 1997
Mine is a first edition without its dustjacket. This is sad for me.
This book is many things. First, it is the story of a family of Hmong refugees living in [...]