PV: There are so many stories in the Hmong community, and we need to tell these stories to counter the harmful narratives that have been told about us by people who are not us. But how do we tell these stories that are so closely tied to war and popular ideas and images of refugees ...
The author is white American, and the book documents a medical case of a Hmong child with epilepsy and shows the dissonance between how Hmong people and how Californian doctors have different approaches to disease, treatment, communication, etc. (The title comes from the Hmong way of expressing...