A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Critical Overview
Even before publication of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Butler had already established his reputation as a writer of Vietnam fiction. Such categorization displeased the author, who stated, ‘‘Artists get at deeper truths.’’ Some of Butler’s earlier works had also drawn criticism because he told the stories from a point of view that was not his own—that is, he took on the role of a Vietnamese person. Several short stories were even rejected by magazines on these grounds.
With the publication of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain in 1992, which...
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