A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler, another Pulitzer Prize winner 1993. This is a collection of stories of Vietnamese living in American(near New Orleans) who deal with their homeland culture, the war, and the American culture. Each chapter is from a different person's perspective from a successful business man to game show winner. For most, the war is always present even if it is pushed back to give way to making a living and dealing with the everyday stuff of being an "American".

I relate this book to the American Iraqi citizens or American Jewish citizens or German or Japanese American citizens in time of war. There's just no way to get around the tragedies of war. They are a part of every citizen, even those who don't participate.

I know, I'm married to a Vietnam veteran.