Matt Freidson

Biography

Matt Freidson lived in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1997-98 and managed a Vietnamese refugee center in London in 2001-02. He is currently the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Other stories from this collection-in-progress have appeared in The New England Review, StoryQuarterly, Chattahoochee Review, Ontario Review, Confrontation and forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and the Michigan Quarterly Review.

See Work

FICTION / Summer 2002

Strange New Homeland

By Matt Freidson

Forgive me, husband, that I do not look my best. It is a long journey by train from Há Nôi to Láo Cai 12 hours; that much remains the same.