A Prayer for Orion - by Katherine James (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>When Katherine James and her husband found out their son was using heroin, they struggled to come to grips with this surprising reality. In this sensitive, vulnerable memoir, award-winning novelist James tells her family's story through her son's addiction, overdose, and slow recovery. Not simply a look at drug abuse in suburban America, this story is also a meditation on loving a wayward child and trusting in God's providence through it all.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><ul> <li>2020 <em>ECPA</em> Top Shelf Book Cover Award</li> </ul><p> <strong>It's always somebody else's kid--until it's yours.</strong> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>In painful, haunting vignettes, James interweaves her life with his [her son's life], telling their story from the anguished, solitary helplessness of self-doubt--and then, ultimately, the resplendent relief of joy. The numbers regarding heroin abuse are staggering. They transcend all demographics--race, gender, economic status. James transforms the senseless horror of the statistic into a single soul, the son she calls 'Sweetboy.'</p>--Anne Kennedy, Christianity Today 01/06/2020 CT Five Star Review<br>
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