abstract:A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs (online or otherwise) and is selected by men for marriage. In nineteenth-century America, mail-order brides came from well-developed areas in the East to marry men in Western frontier lands (see history section).
The absurdity and mystery continue with "Missing Heels, " in which a mail-order bride arrives in a strange town and starts living at the house of a husband she only sees in her dreams.