A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love

By Katherine James

Book Overview

2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

It's always somebody else's kid--until it's yours.When Katherine James and her husband found out their son was using heroin, their responses ran the gamut: disbelief, anger, helplessness, guilt. As they struggled to come to grips with their son's addiction and decide how best to help him, their home became a refuge for an unlikely assortment of their son's friends, each with their own story, drawn by the simple love and acceptance they found there--"the Lost Boys," James calls them.In this sensitive, vulnerable memoir, award-winning novelist James turns her lush prose to a new purpose: to tell her family's story through the twists and turns of her son's addiction, overdose, and slow recovery. The result is not just a look at the phenomenon of drug abuse in suburban America, but also a meditation on the particular anguish of loving a wayward child and clinging to a desperate trust in God's providence through it all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830845771
• ISBN13: 9780830845774
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: IVP
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"