A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Characters
Among the fifteen stories in A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Butler uses eight male narrators, and seven female narrators. Most narrators are middle-aged or older, but the narrator of "Letters from My Father" is a teenage girl looking through letters her American father had written during his years of trying to get his wife and daughter out of Vietnam. A male narrator's military experience is salient in "Open Arms," "In the Clearing," and in "Love," in which the protagonist who once could "call fire from the sky" on rivals for his wife's attention is reduced to attempting a...
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