Without a Map by Meredith Hall

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Without a Map by Meredith Hall

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Without a Map by Meredith Hall

Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at 16. 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 21, 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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Meredith Hall graduated from Bowdoin College at the age of 44. She wrote her first essay, Killing Chickens, in 2002. Two years later, she won the $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation, which gave her the financial freedom to devote time to her memoir Without a Map.

Her other honors include a Pushcart Prize and notable essay recognition in Best American Essays. She was also a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Award. Hall's work has appeared in the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Southern Review, Five Points, Prairie Schooner, and several anthologies. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Maine.

Visit Meredith Hall's website at www.meredithhall.org.

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ISBN 13 9780807072745
ISBN 10 0807072745
Title Without a Map
Author Meredith Hall
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Beacon Press
Year published 2008-04-01
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.