A Prayer for Orion – A Son`s Addiction and a Mother`s Love
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4577-4 (ISBN)
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.
Katherine James received the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship from Columbia University, where she also taught undergraduate fiction. Her debut novel, Can You See Anything Now?, won Christianity Today's 2018 Fiction Book award and was a semifinalist for the Doris Bakwin Award.
Preface
Part One
Sick
Yo
There Once Was a Mother
War Drug
The Salvation of Menstrual Cramps
Apple Pie
Loco
Names
Glass Half Empty
Settling In
Smoking
The Lost Boys
Retribution
Opiaddicts
Jeremiah
Skin Heads
Dreams
Part Two
Stephan
Guns and Arrows
Patterns
Without Ceasing
Pee Test
Lost
The Ruin of Tapestries and Couches
Next of Kin
Septic Shock
Backstory
Elevators All the Way Down
Ten to Thirty Percent
Glory's in the Front Yard
The Things They Carry
The Joy Comes In
Ways to Save a Kid
Golden Boy
The Revelations of Doors
Tripping
Kayaking the Dark River
Walking It Back
Waylen
Sunflowers
Provence
Now
Acknowledgments
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.12.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Illinois |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 141 x 215 mm |
Gewicht | 274 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung | |
Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8308-4577-1 / 0830845771 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8308-4577-4 / 9780830845774 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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