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Surrendered child : a birth mother's journey / Karen Salyer McElmurray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McElmurray, Karen Salyer, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birthmothers--Kentucky--Biography.
- Birthmothers.
- Adoptees--Kentucky--Identification--Case studies.
- Adoptees.
- Adoption--Kentucky--Case studies.
- Adoption.
- McElmurray, Karen Salyer, 1956-.
- McElmurray, Karen Salyer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9786613253163
- 9781283253161
- 128325316X
- 9780820342849
- 082034284X
- OCLC:
- 759160187
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