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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780807072745
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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