Without a Map - A Memoir
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Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether.Meredith Halls moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her mother. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father--in her own fathers hometown. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her.. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom. 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. Halls parents never