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Robert Olen Butler

‘I wake and it’s dark and a woman is beside me, naked and small, and she is waking too and the room is still heavy with the incense she burned for her dead.’

Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler was born in 1945. He is the author of twelve novels and six collections of stories, including a Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

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