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Without a Map: A Memoir
"A brave writer of tumultuous beauty." --Entertainment Weekly"Beautifully rendered." --ElleA poignant, unflinchingly assured memoir." --The Boston Globe...
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"A brave writer of tumultuous beauty." --Entertainment Weekly
"Beautifully rendered." --Elle
A poignant, unflinchingly assured memoir." --The Boston Globe This "sobering portrayal" of a pregnant teen exiled from her small New Hampshire community is "a testament to the importance of understanding and even forgiving the people who . . . have made us who we are" (O, The Oprah Magazine) 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. Her lost son finds her when he is twenty-one. 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.
Author: Meredith Hall
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.59w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780807072745
About the Author
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.
"Beautifully rendered." --Elle
A poignant, unflinchingly assured memoir." --The Boston Globe This "sobering portrayal" of a pregnant teen exiled from her small New Hampshire community is "a testament to the importance of understanding and even forgiving the people who . . . have made us who we are" (O, The Oprah Magazine) 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. Her lost son finds her when he is twenty-one. 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.
Author: Meredith Hall
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.59w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780807072745
About the Author
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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