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  • A Prayer for Orion

  • A Son’s Addiction and a Mother’s Love
  • By: Katherine James
  • Narrated by: Pam Ward
  • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: Katherine James
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Summary

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.

©2020 Originally published by InterVarsity Press as A Prayer for Orion by Katherine James (P)2020 by Blackstone Publishing
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