Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall (Beacon Press, 2007)In clear and powerful prose Meredith Hall takes us on a journey along the path she wandered after her family and her community (Hampton, NH) turned her away when she was sixteen years old and pregnant.
"Family, church, school -- each of those memberships that had embraced me as a child -- turned their backs. Shunning is supposed to keep bad things from happening in a community. But it doesn't correct the life gone wrong. It can only expose the transgression to a very raw light, use it as a measure, a warning to others ..." (p. ix)
On January 27 at 2pm Rebecca Rule will talk with Meredith Hall as part of the NH Author's Series at UNH, Durham.
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