A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
First edition cover | |
| Author | Robert Olen Butler |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Jacket illustration by Neil Flewellen Jacket design by Carin Goldberg |
| Language | English |
| Published | 1992 (Henry Holt) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 249 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-8050-1986-3 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 24285600 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3552.U8278 G66 1992 |
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is a 1992 collection of short stories by Robert Olen Butler. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1993.
Each story in the collection is narrated by a different Vietnamese immigrant living in the US state of Louisiana. The stories are largely character-driven and center on cultural differences between Vietnam and the United States. Many of the stories were first published in literary journals, and the collection was re-released in 2001 with two additional stories, "Salem" and "Missing".