Surrendered Child by Karen Salyer Mcelmurray

Surrendered Child by Karen Salyer Mcelmurray

This is 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. In a patchwork narrative, McElmurray deftly treads where few dare - into a gritty, honest exploration of the loss a birth mother experiences.

This is a very moving and pungent narrative, which quickly engages the reader's imagination, as its gorgeously remembered details spill onto the page, not necessarily in chronological order but by patchwork design and as if on their own" —Beverly Lowry author of Crossed Over: A Murder, a Memoir

"Graceful, shocking, sensuous, and gritty, this book questions consequences. It ends at the beginning and begins at the end. A wonderful, almost unbearably honest book." —Sheri Reynolds The Rapture of Canaan

"Riveting and disturbing, McElmurray's poetic language and utter honesty lift this story into the realm of grace—finally, this dark memoir is an enlightening and redemptive work of art." —Lee Smith

"This book bears powerful testimony to the saving grace of imagination." —Tennessean

"Not only a deeply moving personal story that takes great courage to tell, but also a beautiful and haunting exploration of the nature and the meaning of motherhood and love. McElmurray's lyrical, incantatory voice casts a magic spell." —Janice Eidus author of The Celibacy Club

"McElmurray transforms some of her life's more difficult experiences into pure poetry; where there once was pain, she creates beauty." —Rosemary Daniell author of Fatal Flowers

"Courageous in its honesty, stunning in its vision. McElmurray is a writer of enormous talent who explores the consequences of loss and grace and recovery in this hauntingly beautiful story of her life." —Gwyn Hyman Rubio author of Icy Sparks

"In this fresh, painfully honest, but very wise and beautifully written book, Karen McElmurray tells us how deeply some decisions affect us, ever afterwards." —Reeve Lindburgh

KAREN SALYER MCELMURRAY is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Georgia College and State University. She has received dozens of honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Award, and the James Purdy Prize for Fiction. She has published essays and stories in numerous magazines and journals.

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ISBN 13	9780820328232
ISBN 10	0820328235
Title	Surrendered Child
Author	Karen Salyer Mcelmurray
Series	The Sue William Silverman Prize For Creative Nonfiction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2006-03-30
Number of pages	272
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