1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors’ methods….
1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Shortlist
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
Bernard Lefkowitz
Race, Crime, and the Law
Randall Kennedy
