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

2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

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 Los...