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Without a Map: A Memoir
Meredith Hall
#UC0912
Paperback, 227 pages; 2007
$14.00
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Well, she can’t live here. So abrupt, the end of having a mother. Within a few years, my mother and I will seem close again. I love her. But she will never again be my mother. Love and its failure.
For some of us, 1965 doesn't seem so very long ago. Meredith Hall reminds us that the world, or at least small-town America, was a very different place then. At age sixteen, Hall found herself pregnant and was shunned by her family and virtually everyone else in her small New England hometown. She was kicked out of school, cold-shouldered by the good Christians at her church, and sent away from her home. The very civilized brutality of it all is stunning. Hall tells her true story in measured tones, but the pain is palpable.
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