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.

A Prayer for Orion: A Son's Addiction and a Mother's Love

Health, Fitness & Dieting

James, Katherine

Addiction & Recovery

Every day, my children and I access different dimensions. Guests from the 'other side'. Swirling portals that go back in time. Angels with blazing swords. Miraculous healings. Visitors from ancient Egypt.

Children Of The Light

James, Kevin

James, Bryan

Religion & Spirituality

Ignatius Press

Winner of the Christianity Today 2018 Fiction Book Award Can You See Anything Now?, a debut novel, follows a year in the small town of Trinity where the tragedy and humility of a few reveal the reality of people’s motivations and desires. This is a story without veneer, and for readers who prefer reality to sanitized fiction—this book is unsentimental, and yet grace-filled. The characters here are complex and intriguing—the suicidal painter, Margie, who has been teaching her evangelical neighbor, Etta, how to paint nudes; her husband, the town therapist, who suspects his work helps no one; and their college-aged daughter Noel—whose roommate, Pixie, joins them at home for a winter holiday. Author Katherine James' memoir, Notes On Orion, will also be published in 2018.

Can You See Anything Now?: A Novel (Paraclete Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Paraclete Press

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