Credit United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR Radio Reader’s Book Club The book is “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman. In 1979, three years after a failed previous escape and three years before Lia was born to the Lees, her family was part of a group of some 400 Hmong who escaped westward to Thailand, as their Vietnamese captors pursued them, setting fires and land mines. From there they emigrated to the US. Some 150,00 Hmong overall escaped the Vietnamese occupiers and the Pathet...