Meredith Hall (born 1944), after years as a professor of creative writing at the University of New Hampshire and the publication of a number of articles, came late to personal writing.
This was in 2007, with the release of her autobiography,
Without a Map
, in which she talks about her childhood in Maine and the birth of her son, when she was 16, without a husband and his parents pushed her to entrust him to an orphanage.
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It was a success, and this woman who had written her Memoirs before putting together a work ended up writing a novel that we can assume is autobiographical which was widely praised, notably by Richard Ford and Richard Russo .
She tells the story of a lost paradise.
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The Senters are a happy family.
In the 1930s, Tup and his young wife, Doris, took over the family farm in Maine and turned it into a Garden of Eden.
The dairy cows are doing well, the harvests are yielding…
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