Surrendered Child 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 interwomen with dark memories from her childhood, McElmurrey deftly treads where few dare--into a gritty, honest exploration of the loss a birth mother experiences.