1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner
![The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580847975-58993-image-3.jpg)
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](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581050034-7694-image-3.jpg)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
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Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
Bernard Lefkowitz
![Race, Crime, and the Law](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580967828-2646-image-3.jpg)
Race, Crime, and the Law
Randall Kennedy
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