After Botham
Healing From My Brother's Murder by a Police Officer

Name: After Botham
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Allisa Charles-Findley
ISBN: 9781666648324

Author: Allisa Charles-Findley, Jeremiah Cobra

Narrator: Reina Mystique

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/05/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, African American & Black Nonfiction, Social Science, Violence In Society, Discrimination

Synopsis

On September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from his daily call with his sister, Allisa. She’d encouraged her brother to stay home for the night’s opening Dallas Cowboys game as sports bars would be too dangerous. Guyger instantly assumed the large black man watching the game was a burglar in her home. She shot him, then failed to render aid as he succumbed to the wound she’d inflicted. Officer Guyger forever altered the lives of the hundreds who knew and loved this kind-hearted young man who lead worship at his church and worked diligently at Price Waterhouse Cooper. Botham's murder shocked the nation. And it devastated his sister. After Botham is Allisa’s story of what happened to her brother and how she fought through the aftermath to find life.

About Allisa Charles-Findley

Allisa Charles-Findley is the sister of Botham Jean and the president of the Botham Jean Foundation, which promotes Christian intervention for social change. She is also president of Sisters of the Movement, a coalition of sisters of police-brutality victims working in unity. She holds a Master's in Healthcare Management and, prior to her current social-justice work, spent fifteen years in health insurance.

About Jeremiah Cobra

Jeremiah Cobra is a teacher and writer in Los Angeles with degrees from Howard University and the University of Southern California. He studied and taught in Japan for seven years. His 2020 debut novel, And Then He Shot His Cousin, was inspired by his experience growing up in foster care from the age of nine.

About Reina Mystique

Reina Mystique is a trained vocal artist with over twenty years of experience in the recording arts. She has graced stages large and small as an actress, a musician, and a professional host. Originally from Southern California, she currently lives with her husband and son in Ohio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert

It seems that stories about the killings of African American men and women, often by police, appear with greater frequency. Names like Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, and Bothan James have become part of a litany we rehearse with increasing frequency. Some of us wonder whether this rea......more

Goodreads review by Shannan

The sister of Botham Jean, the man who was killed in his own apartment by an officer tells her devastating truth of how she's been handling the death of her younger brother. This was one of the most heart wrenching non fiction reads I have read. You can feel her pain throughout the book. I feel so b......more

Goodreads review by Dannie

Profoundly moving. I received a complimentary audiobook from the publisher via libro.fm.......more

Goodreads review by Ellen

Seems the author needed to unburden herself of the devastating trauma she experienced.......more