A Prayer for Orion

A Son’s Addiction and a Mother’s Love

By: Katherine James

Narrated by: Pam Ward

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

Couldn’t get through due to narrator

I couldn’t even listen to this due to the narrator’s voice. Her voice made me cringe and was worse when she tried to narrate different characters.

just ok.

this book is just ok. there's parts of it thats really slow. at times it was hard for me to keep listening.

Powerful story, unique perspective

This is a moving story that shares a very unique perspective. It’s real and raw, yet hopeful and beautiful.