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

by James, Katherine
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ISBN: 9780830845774
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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: Trade Paperback
  • Author: James, Katherine
  • ISBN: 9780830845774
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Publication Year: 2020

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