This is a very serious book filled with history, medical information, Hmong culture and the politics of war and immigration in the United States. It is a rather damning text, both to the U.S. in our international politics, and to the rigidity of our medical system. Lia Lee is the 13th child of ...
At Large and At Small 07182009 Familiar Essays by Anne FadimanBy Raya Madison "lifelong lit lover" (NY USA) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (Hardcover)Really, it will. In this collection of essays (available separately in other venues, but n...
Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written ...
Lundman, in which an eleven-year-old diabetic named Ian Lundman slipped into a fatal coma after his mother, his stepfather, and two Christian Science practitioners prayed for him instead of administering insulin. The boy’s father, who was not a Christian Scientist, had won a damages award of $1.5...
On September 13, two days after the attacks, we raised it, with our children’s help, to half staff. Our six-year-old son enjoyed pulling the halyard; on its way up the peeling white-painted pole, next to the big maple tree in the front yard, the flag made an interesting and satisfying sound, part...
