A review by vspinazola
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

5.0

Gorgeous, intricate writing that does what short stories do best - evoke a complicated range of feelings in a small amount of space. Most of the perspectives on Vietnam are covered - North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese still living in Vietnam, born to American soldiers, or living in New Orleans and South Louisiana. Vietnam vets. Women and men. Every story was fabulous and stands on its own - my favorite was the one about a S. Vietnamese man employing Voodoo on his cheating wife. This is one of the best short story collections I've read in a long time.