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Meredith Hall' s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father— in her own father' s hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall' s parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.

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"Hall emerges as a brave writer of tumultuous beauty." --Alanna Nash "A lyrical, acutely observed memoir." --Jan Gardner "Achingly sad, ...this is a stunning exploration of the mystery of 'love and all its failings...and its final redemptions.'" (4 Stars)--Caroline Leavitt "Achingly sad, this is a stunning exploration of the mystery of 'love and all its failings . . . and its final redemption.'" "Each chapter of Without a Map is polished and elegantly written . . . the structure is shapely and the book yields poignant insights." --Washington Post "Meredith Hall's off-track life makes poignant reading...not a whisper of self-pity or self-aggrandizement, so often the banes of memoir...exquisite." "Wherever you stand on Roe v. Wade, you can't help but be moved by this memoir of an unwed pregnant teen forced by her parents to give up her baby in 1965. It will make you think AND break your heart." --AARP website & quot; A lyrical, acutely observed memoir.& quot; & mdash; Jan Gardner & quot; Achingly sad, this is a stunning exploration of the mystery of & #39; love and all its failings . . . and its final redemption.& #39; & quot; & quot; Hall emerges as a brave writer of tumultuous beauty.& quot; & mdash; Alanna Nash & quot; Written in spare, unsentimental prose, Without a Map is stunning; Meredy& #39; s reunion with her grown son (who was raised in poverty with an abusive father) is the highlight. Book groups, take note.& quot; " A lyrical, acutely observed memoir." — Jan Gardner " Hall emerges as a brave writer of tumultuous beauty." — Alanna Nash " Achingly sad, this is a stunning exploration of the mystery of ' love and all its failings . . . and its final redemption.' " " Written in spare, unsentimental prose, Without a Map is stunning; Meredy' s reunion with her grown son (who was raised in poverty with an abusive father) is the highlight. Book groups, take note." "Written in spare, unsentimental prose, Without a Map is stunning; Meredy's reunion with her grown son (who was raised in poverty with an abusive father) is the highlight. Book groups, take note." Meredith Hall's long journey from an inexcusably betrayed girlhood to the bittersweet mercies of womanhood is a triple triumph--of survival; of narration; and of forgiveness. "Without a Map" is a masterpiece. --David James Duncan, author of "The Brothers K and God Laughs and Plays" "Heartbreaking, uplifting, and luminous, "Without a Map" contains some of the most lyrical and evocative prose I have I ever read. Meredith Hall's story of loss, shame, and betrayal is also a story of joy, reconnection, and survival; each memory takes us deep to the marrow of sorrow and celebration. " --Kim Barnes, author of "In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country" Winner of the "Elle" nonfiction readers' pick for the month of April: "In this stark, stunning, and devastating account of being shunned by her family and New England community after giving birth out of wedlock in the '60s, Hall writes about what was and what might have been. Particularly moving is her haunting description of wandering in Europe and the Middle East, ultimately shoeless, penniless, and utterly alone. Refreshingly, she tells about life via a collection of beautifully rendered sketches instead of a linear narrative."--Sheila McClear, NYC "Meredith Hall is like a geiger counter ticking along the radium edge of these recent decades. She gives us self as expert witness--"Without a Map" is smart, sharp, and redemptively honest." --Sven Birkerts, author of "The Gutenberg Elegies" and "My Sky Blue Trades" "Meredith Hall boldly charts one of the bravest of stories, the journey from disrupted youth up through that most tricky and forbidding territory, the family circle. Bone-honest and strong in its every line, this work of memory is a remarkably deep retrieval of its times and souls, thereby reflecting our own."--Ivan Doig, author of "Heart Earth" ""Without A Map" tells an important and perceptive story about loss, about aloneness and isolation in a time of great n


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  • ISBN-13: 9780807072738
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 0807072737
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Sub Title: A Memoir


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