Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

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Jo rated it

May 10, 2012

This is more a collection of voices than of stories. Compelling, thoughtful, well-meaning, sometimes wise voices, trying to make sense out of life, humanity, nationalism, being Vietnamese, being old, living with war, and trying to love through all the complexities of being human.

I didn't read th... ...more

Ben rated it

Mar 31, 2012

Pulitzer 1993 - I read this book in about 4 days. All of th short stories are about Vietnamese families living and adjusting to life in the Lake Charles region of LA. Butler did such a great job with, I assume, understanding and writing from the Vietnamese perspective that I looked him up to see... ...more

Shel rated it

Jan 16, 2012

Thank you, public library. I was looking for Robert Olen Butler's short story collection Tabloid Dreams, but this was the book by the author my library had, otherwise, I might not have tried this book of beautiful, poignant stories mostly written from the perspective of Vietnamese immigrants to L... ...more

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Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

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Robert Butler

Pulitzer Prize - Winner

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Henry Holt and Co.
March 1992
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ISBN: 9780805019865
ISBN10: 0805019863
6 x 9 inches, 249 pages

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