Without a Map : A Memoir (Paperback)

from OneMorePage

1965. 16-year-old Meredy Hall finds herself pregnant after one sexual encounter. The young man is gone, back to his life in Boston. When her pregnancy shows, she is kicked out of school. That night, her mother kicks her out of the house, sending her to live with her father and his new wife. She i...

from TimBazzett

Wow! And that's a very soft wow, filled with wonderment at this book so bursting with truth and filled with pain, anger and forgiveness. On the surface, this could simply be viewed as a book about a woman who got pregnant at sixteen, gave up her baby, and had a very difficult time of things for t...

from kageeh

Meredith Hall's intriguing memoir "Without a Map" is a singularly poignant and interesting book from a literary point of view and both heart-wrenching and affirming from an emotional point. At first, the non-linear aspect of her story touched on the annoying but then it all came together; in many...

from TimBazzett

Wow! And that's a very soft wow, filled with wonderment at this book so bursting with truth and filled with pain, anger and forgiveness. On the surface, this could simply be viewed as a book about a woman who got pregnant at sixteen, gave up her baby, and had a very difficult time of things for t...

from bobbieharv

She portrays herself as a normal girl growing up in NH until her mother takes up with a group of hippies and she, the daughter alone all day while her mother works, gets pregnant. Then the mother throws her out; she lives with her father and his new wife until the baby is born and given up for ad...