Tamara's review
Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall
Tamara's review
Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall
Tamara's review
rating:
recommended for: everyone
"I didn’t make this plan. I just wake up sometimes and want to crawl out of my life” (60).
After getting expelled from high school in Hampton, NH in 1965 when it is discovered that she is 5-months pregnant,
Meredith finds herself very alone in the world. Shunned by the community that she once was a part of-even by her friends & and family including her own mother.
She was sent to live with her father and her step-mother during her pregnancy in Epping, NH; both traveled for work and she was kept in isolation. If they had dinner parties-she was to dine alone in her room. After the baby’s delivery she is sent off to boarding school and the baby is given up for adoption. She has no choice in the matter.
After graduation she and her step-mother have an argument and she is banned from her
father’s house forever.
Meredith’s soul searching took her from New Hampshire to Boston to India to Maine.
“The nights are very cold. I have no jacket, no sweater, no...more
After getting expelled from high school in Hampton, NH in 1965 when it is discovered that she is 5-months pregnant,
Meredith finds herself very alone in the world. Shunned by the community that she once was a part of-even by her friends & and family including her own mother.
She was sent to live with her father and her step-mother during her pregnancy in Epping, NH; both traveled for work and she was kept in isolation. If they had dinner parties-she was to dine alone in her room. After the baby’s delivery she is sent off to boarding school and the baby is given up for adoption. She has no choice in the matter.
After graduation she and her step-mother have an argument and she is banned from her
father’s house forever.
Meredith’s soul searching took her from New Hampshire to Boston to India to Maine.
“The nights are very cold. I have no jacket, no sweater, no...more
