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A Prayer for Orion
A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love|
14,78 € |
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| Verlag: | IVP Academic |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 28.01.2020 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780830857920 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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Beschreibungen
- 2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover AwardIt'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.
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>Preface<br /><b>Part One</b><br />
Sick<br />
Yo<br />
There Once Was a Mother<br />
War Drug<br />
The Salvation of Menstrual Cramps<br />
Apple Pie<br />
Loco<br />
Names<br />
Glass Half Empty<br />
Settling In<br />
Smoking<br />
The Lost Boys<br />
Retribution<br />
Opiaddicts<br />
Jeremiah<br />
Skin Heads<br />
Dreams<br /><b>Part Two</b><br />
Stephan<br />
Guns and Arrows<br />
Patterns<br />
Without Ceasing<br />
Pee Test<br />
Lost<br />
The Ruin of Tapestries and Couches<br />
Next of Kin<br />
Septic Shock<br />
Backstory<br />
Elevators All the Way Down<br />
Ten to Thirty Percent<br />
Glory's in the Front Yard<br />
The Things They Carry<br />
The Joy Comes In<br />
Ways to Save a Kid<br />
Golden Boy<br />
The Revelations of Doors<br />
Tripping<br />
Kayaking the Dark River<br />
Walking It Back<br />
Waylen<br />
Sunflowers<br />
Provence<br />
Now<br />
Acknowledgments</p>
Sick<br />
Yo<br />
There Once Was a Mother<br />
War Drug<br />
The Salvation of Menstrual Cramps<br />
Apple Pie<br />
Loco<br />
Names<br />
Glass Half Empty<br />
Settling In<br />
Smoking<br />
The Lost Boys<br />
Retribution<br />
Opiaddicts<br />
Jeremiah<br />
Skin Heads<br />
Dreams<br /><b>Part Two</b><br />
Stephan<br />
Guns and Arrows<br />
Patterns<br />
Without Ceasing<br />
Pee Test<br />
Lost<br />
The Ruin of Tapestries and Couches<br />
Next of Kin<br />
Septic Shock<br />
Backstory<br />
Elevators All the Way Down<br />
Ten to Thirty Percent<br />
Glory's in the Front Yard<br />
The Things They Carry<br />
The Joy Comes In<br />
Ways to Save a Kid<br />
Golden Boy<br />
The Revelations of Doors<br />
Tripping<br />
Kayaking the Dark River<br />
Walking It Back<br />
Waylen<br />
Sunflowers<br />
Provence<br />
Now<br />
Acknowledgments</p>
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.
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