Meredith Hall

Without a Map (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807072721
• Artikelnr.: 37864432

Autorenporträt

At the age of forty-four, Meredith Hall graduated from Bowdoin College. 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 Without a Map, her first book. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue:
Shunned
Chapter One:
The Lonely Hunter
Chapter Two:
Waiting
Chapter Three:
Stronghold
Chapter Four:
The Uprising
Chapter Five:
Again
Chapter Six:
Drawing the Line
Chapter Seven:
Without a Map
Chapter Eight:
A River of Light
Chapter Nine:
Double Vision
Chapter Ten:
Killing Chickens
Chapter Eleven:
Threshold
Chapter Twelve:
Propitiation
Chapter Thirteen:
Chimeras
Chapter Fourteen:
Reckonings
Chapter Fifteen:
The River of Forgetting
Chapter Sixteen:
Sojourn
Chapter Seventeen:
Outport Shadows
Epilogue:
Gratitude