Snow (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Olen Butler
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Culture, United States or Americans, Interracial relationships, Jews or Jewish life, Asian Americans, Louisiana, Vietnam or Vietnamese people
- Locales: Louisiana
In “Snow,” a short story from his 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Butler weaves the tale of a Vietnamese refugee, Giàu, and a Jewish lawyer, Mr. Cohen. Butler's theme is once again the fracturing of community by the alienating sense of dislocation felt by outsiders.
On Christmas Eve, Giàu is working in the Plantation Hunan restaurant in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The product of a patriarchal society, she is a woman without a man, a position she finds uncomfortable. Everything about America makes her feel alien....
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See Also:
Robert Olen Butler (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Robert Olen Butler (Long Fiction)Robert Olen Butler (Short Fiction)
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