McElmurray, Karen Salyer.

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.

9780820342849


McElmurray, Karen Salyer,-1956-.
Birthmothers-Kentucky-Biography.
Adoptees-Kentucky-Identification-Case studies.
Adoption-Kentucky-Case studies.


Electronic books.

HV874.82.M36 A3 2004

362.82/98/092 B