A Prayer for Orion

<ul><li>2020 <I>ECPA</I> Top Shelf Book Cover Award</li></ul><P><B>It's always somebody else's kid-until it's yours.</B></P><P>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.</P><P>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>