Without a Map by Meredith Hall

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Monday, September 14 through Friday, October 2, 2009.Read by Susan Sweeney.

Meredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned , kicked out of her mother?s house and banished by her father, she gives up her baby up for adoption. Finally she returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief.

(Beacon Press; ISBN-10: 0807072737 / ISBN13: 978-0807072738)

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Theme: Lars Erik Larson, Adagio from “Adagio: Music for Silent Moments” (Arte Nova Classics 74321 378702)