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Fadiman, Anne

Summary: When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.4 FAD

Fadiman, Anne

Summary: When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents were part of a large Hmong community in Merced. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.461 FAD

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