- 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 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.
- ISBN13 9780830845774
- Publish Date 28 January 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher InterVarsity Press
- Imprint IVP Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English