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A Memoir
Beacon Press
April 2007
On Sale: April 11, 2007
248 pages
ISBN: 0807072737
EAN: 9780807072738
Hardcover
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Fiction Women's Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
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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