AP+Summer+Reading+Prompt

Robert Olen Butler in an interview about //A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain// remarked, "The irony of it, the thing that's fitting about it, is that this book seems to be fully and completely about the Vietnamese, is every bit as much about the American Culture as it is about the Vietnamese." Write a well-organized essay in which you describe the ways these stories about about the "American Culture". Use at least three of the stories as a reference.