The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Subtitle: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: September 30, 1998
ISBN-13: 9780374975807
First sentence: 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.