Problem: Although Lia has been certified brain dead, Foua and Nao Kao plan a healing ritual with the txiv neeb. Do you think the Lees haven't given up faith that the txiv neeb will be able to rescue Lia? Is there anything we can infer about the Hmong faith from this?
Fadiman, A. (1997). The spirit catches youDiversity fall. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (ISBN-13: p. 978-0374533403)