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in a Hmong community in California, where their daughter Lia was born. The treatment of Lia's seizure disorder in the United States, both by her parents and by her health care providers, becomes the focus of Fadiman's story even as it becomes the focus of the family's life.

One of the most valuable aspects of the book is the way in which Fadiman successfully introduces us to the ways in which the family think about Americans before they immigrate. We learn, for examp

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