Think for a moment of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, of banishment, reconciliation, redemption, and you'll get the scope of Without a Map, the new memoir by Meredith Hall out next month.
It begins in 1965. Hall, pregnant at 16, is first shunned and then effectively banished by her parents and her New Hampshire community. She gives her baby up for adoption and goes wandering, penniless, in the Middle East. Ultimately she returns to New England and is reunited with both her parents and her son.
An extraordinary tale, made all the more moving by Hall's unsentimental prose and ample heart.
written on Wednesday Mar 21, 2007
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