Books by Karen Salyer McElmurray and Complete Book Reviews

SURRENDERED CHILD: A Birth Mother's Journey
SURRENDERED CHILD: A Birth Mother's Journey
Karen Salyer McElmurray, Author . Univ. of Georgia $29.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2681-8
While memoirs by foster parents and adopted children crowd bookshelves, we haven't heard as much from the women who've given up those children for adoption. McElmurray may seem a typical birth mother—a working-class teen unprepared to...
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The Motel of the Stars
The Motel of the Stars
Karen Salyer McElmurray, Author . Sarabande $16.95 (269p) ISBN 978-1-932511-66-6
McElmurray's evocative second novel journeys into the New Age subculture, beginning with Kentucky repo man Jason Sanderson, still grieving for Sam, the son he lost 10 years ago. Desperate, Sanderson leaves his concerned wife to find his son'
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Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
Karen Salyer McElmurray, Author Hill Street Press $25 (312p) ISBN 978-1-892514-24-0
First novelist McElmurray vividly captures the harsh realities of God-haunted Eastern Kentucky in this intense, gloomy, multigenerational tale. Choice and the striving for redemption are her two irreconcilable yet knotted themes, the dual impulses...
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