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 altoge
Without a Map: a Memoir
โ Scribed by Hall, Meredith
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Year
- 2008;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Prologue: Shunned; Chapter One: The Lonely Hunter; Chapter Two: Waiting; Chapter Three: Stronghold; Chapter Four: The Uprising; Chapter Five: Again; Chapter Six: Drawing the Line; Chapter Seven: Without a Map; Chapter Eight: A River of Light; Chapter Nine: Double Vision; Chapter Ten: Killing Chickens; Chapter Eleven: Threshold; Chapter Twelve: Propitiation; Chapter Thirteen: Chimeras; Chapter Fourteen: Reckonings; Chapter Fifteen: The River of Forgetting; Chapter Sixteen: Sojourn; Chapter Seventeen: Outport Shadows; Acknowledgments.
โฆ Table of Contents
Prologue: Shunned
Chapter One: The Lonely Hunter
Chapter Two: Waiting
Chapter Three: Stronghold
Chapter Four: The Uprising
Chapter Five: Again
Chapter Six: Drawing the Line
Chapter Seven: Without a Map
Chapter Eight: A River of Light
Chapter Nine: Double Vision
Chapter Ten: Killing Chickens
Chapter Eleven: Threshold
Chapter Twelve: Propitiation
Chapter Thirteen: Chimeras
Chapter Fourteen: Reckonings
Chapter Fifteen: The River of Forgetting
Chapter Sixteen: Sojourn
Chapter Seventeen: Outport Shadows
Acknowledgments.
โฆ Subjects
Authors, American--21st century--Biography;Hall, Meredith,--1949---Childhood and youth;Teenage girls--Maine--Biography;Teenage pregnancy;;Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography;Hall, Meredith, -- 1949- -- Childhood and youth;Teenage girls -- Maine -- Biography
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