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Without a Map
by Hall, Meredith
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0807072745
- ISBN 13
- 9780807072745
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Paperback Edition. Unread copy signed by the author ("For Jackie..."). From the publisher: "Meredith Hall grew up bonded to her insular New Hampshire community, comforted by the hallmarks of belonging: perfect attendance in Sunday school, classmates who seemed more like cousins, teachers who held her up as a model student, a mother who loved her unconditionally. Then, at sixteen, she became pregnant, and all at once those who had held her close and kept her safe turned their backs." "The same day in 1965 that Meredith was expelled from school, her mother told her "You can't stay here." Her father and stepmother reluctantly offered Meredith a cold sanctuary until she gave birth to the child she gave up for adoption. Then she was banned from her father's home forever. For the next decade she wandered, lost to society and to herself. Slowly, Meredith began stitching together a life that encircled her silenced and invisible grief.".
Synopsis
Meredith HallWithout a Map: A MemoirA prizewinning author’s story of banishment and reconciliation, already excerpted in the New York TimesMeredith 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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- Bookseller
- Whiting Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10004
- Title
- Without a Map
- Author
- Hall, Meredith
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0807072745
- ISBN 13
- 9780807072745
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2008273999
- Keywords
- Memoir, Teenage Pregnancy, Dysfunctional Family
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies & Memoirs;
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