1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction 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 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
American Scripture
Pauline Maier
How the Mind Works
Stephen Pinker
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
