I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays

I Could Name God in Twelve Ways by Karen Salyer McElmurray / University Press of Kentucky (September 10, 2024)

At one point early in her new book of essays, I Could Name God in Twelve Ways, Karen Salyer McElmurray writes, “With memoir, we become accountable.” Later, she wants to be clear: “Memoir is a difficult act….It speaks toward the truth, although it may never, ever uncover the deepest part of what is hidden.”

What her thirteen essays penned as memoir do uncover is the remarkable life of a writer who has passionately journaled her world since childhood. “Through it all, there was a paper trail,” she explains in the book’s prologue. “Notebook after notebook full of images of what I’d seen. Full of dreams. Full of small drawings of faces. Full of words.”

Published July 8, 2024 by bookscover2cover.com.