The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doc...

A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wineIn The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines―with all her characteristic wit and feeling―her relationship with her father, C...