Bowdoin Community Read The first open online book talk Tuesday, April 1, 2014 8:00 p.m. bowdoin.edu Join other alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents, and others in a discussion of Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, moderated by Susan Bell, A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences and chair of the sociology and anthropology department and Stephen Loebs ’60, research associate at the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good and professor emeritus, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University. Author Anne Fadiman will join the conversation by phone and field questions. The talk will be streamed live on Bowdoin’s website starting at 8:00 p.m. During the talk, viewers will be able to e-mail questions to Fadiman and the moderators to participate. Follow the discussion on Twitter with #spiritcatchesyou For more information go to bowdoin.edu for details as the date approaches. Sponsored by the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good and the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs. “The book 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 doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman’s compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.” —Amazon.com