Surrendered Child

"Surrendered Child is Karen Salyer McElmurray's account of her journey from the teenager who put her new-born child up for adoption to the woman desperately searching for the son she never knew. In a patchwork narrative interwoven with dark memories from her childhood, McElmurray treads where few dare - into a gritty, honest exploration of the loss a birth mother experiences." "The year was 1973, a time of social upheaval, even in small-town Kentucky, where McElmurray grew up. More than a story of time and place, however, this is about a girl who, at the age of sixteen, relinquished her son…