Anne Fadiman Books

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down 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. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.

"Ex Libris" by Anne Fadiman is a witty collection of essays celebrating her lifelong love for books and language. Blending humor with insight, Fadiman shares anecdotes from her literary family and explores themes like the joy of reading aloud, the art of inscriptions, and the quirks of passionate readers.

A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine

Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle we all face as we work out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.

In "Ex Libris" teilt Anne Fadiman humorvolle Anekdoten über Schriftsteller*innen und persönliche Erlebnisse ihrer bibliophilen Familie. Sie reflektiert über das Zusammenziehen mit einem Partner, das Vererben von Leseleidenschaft und die Faszination für Antiquariate. Eine unterhaltsame Liebeserklärung an Bücher und das Lesen.

2000 448 Seiten hardcover Berlin Verlag, Mit Schutzumschlag