Beneficence
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A family's only hope is that love is stronger than grief.
Meredith Hall Boeken
Meredith Hall creëert proza dat duikt in het ingewikkelde weefsel van levensveranderingen. Haar schrijven kenmerkt zich door diepe persoonlijke reflectie en verkent zonder terughoudendheid complexe menselijke ervaringen met opmerkelijke eerlijkheid. Door haar verhalen onderzoekt Hall thema's als identiteit, herinnering en de zoektocht naar betekenis, waarbij ze een stijl hanteert die wordt gekenmerkt door lyrische schoonheid en precieze, poëtische taal. Haar werk wordt geprezen om zijn emotionele diepte en zijn vermogen om diep te resoneren bij lezers, wat haar stem consolideert als een belangrijke aanwezigheid in de hedendaagse literatuur.
The national best-selling memoir about banishment, reconciliation, and the meaning of family “This sobering portrayal of a pregnant teen exiled from her small New Hampshire community is a testament to the importance of understanding and even forgiving the people who . . . have made us who we are.”—O, The Oprah Magazine A New York Times Bestseller, now with a new epilogue from the author Meredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at 16. 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 altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. Her lost son tracks her down when he turns 21, and Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father in her own father’s hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall’s parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. Here, loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.