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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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
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‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’
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Banyan
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.’
