Surrendered Child : A Birth Mother's Journey.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Series ; v.26 .
- The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Series .
Cover -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE: Birth Day -- CHAPTER TWO: Mother, Come at Night -- CHAPTER THREE: Hunger -- CHAPTER FOUR: Flight -- CHAPTER FIVE: Sacred Heart -- CHAPTER SIX: Frozen Niagara -- CHAPTER SEVEN: What We Remember and What We Forget -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Lovers -- CHAPTER NINE: Maria Milagrosa -- CHAPTER TEN: A Gift, Freely Bestowed -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments.
Karen Salyer McElmurray's raw, poignant account of her journey from her teen years, when she put her newborn child up for adoption, to adulthood and a desperate search for the son she never knew.