Author

Dorothea Freund

Dorothea Freund, our 1999 Editors’ Prize winner in the essay category, has appeared previously in the Missouri Review.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Nonfiction

Mar 01 2000

A Bride for my Son

The sight of the girl’s short neck made me look away. A wide, stocky neck shaped like an overturned flower pot, with no space for a string of pearls. I had always been proud of the slender stems on which the women in our family carried their heads.