A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Characters

Dao
Dao is the narrator of the story. Nearly 100 years old, he has lived in many places outside his native Vietnam: London, Paris, and now New Orleans. Dao was in Vietnam during the war, and though it is not explicitly stated, must have fled the country after the fall of South Vietnam to the communists. He is living his final years with his family.

While in Paris many decades ago, Dao became a Hoa Hao Buddhist, and thus he values ‘‘harmony among all living things, especially the members of a Vietnamese family.’’ Dao comes to understand that his son-in-law and...


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