A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is a 1992 collection of short stories by Robert Olen Butler.

The narrator speculates that, as a former Communist, he considers pornography immoral, and that it simultaneously reminds him of his longing for his dead wife.

When Mr. Green grows old and melancholy, plucking out his own feathers, the narrator kills him by wringing his neck as she had learned from her mother and grandmother.

This story focuses on the conflict between ancient, honourable but constricting values and the modern assertion of femininity.

The story is about a Vietnamese prostitute nicknamed Miss Noi who was brought to the United States as the wife of an American GI.

She meets a Vietnam War veteran named Mr. Fontenot who proposes to her with an apple and gives her a good life.

After moving to New Orleans, he suspects his wife of having an affair with a Vietnamese restaurant owner and consults a voodoo practitioner.

"Mid-Autumn" is about a mother's first love lost; "In the Clearing" is an apology from father to son for having to leave his family in Vietnam.

A Jewish lawyer named Cohen who shares with Giàu a fear of snow talks to her as he waits for his takeaway meal on Christmas Eve.

Vinh and Frank begin a strange and secretive relationship in which hostilities are sometimes manifested concerning their respective roles in the Vietnam War.

It involves a grandfather, slowly dying, and seeing the vision of Ho Chi Minh, with whom he worked and lived.

The politics of the Vietnamese refugees continue after they have arrived in America, as their new home country looks to deal with the newly Communist united Vietnam.