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AP Literature 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 that seems to be fully and completely about the Vietnamese, is every bit as much about American culture as it is about the Vietnamese." Write a well-organized essay in which you describe the ways these stories are about "American culture". Use at least three of them.