After

Name: After
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Marita Golden
ISBN: 9781449800543

Author: Marita Golden

Narrator: Ezra Knight

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/14/2008

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction

Synopsis

Acclaimed author Marita Golden has a "rare gift for the poetry of language" (San Francisco Chronicle). African-American police officer and family man Carson Blake pulls over a young black man for speeding. When the man reaches for his cell phone, Carson thinks he's going for a weapon and shoots to kill. Now a promising life has been snuffed out, and Carson must begin a painful journey toward redemption. "Marita Golden writes with a fine hand."-Newsday

About Marita Golden

Marita Golden, cofounder and president emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, is a veteran teacher of writing and an acclaimed award-winning author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. She has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA graduate creative writing programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MA creative writing program at John Hopkins University and has taught writing internationally to a variety of constituencies. She currently lives in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie

A 3.5 for me. I like this author and am glad I read this book for the insights it offered from characters with different life experiences than mine. It just wasn’t a compelling read for me — I didn’t hurry back to pick it up. Appreciated the final third of the book most of all. I highly recommend th......more

Goodreads review by Audrey

This book had so much potential. After is the story of a black cop, Carson, that shoots and kills an innocent young black man because he thought he was pulling a gun. But it was just a cell phone. Having never shot his gun before and the night mare of killing a man that had a bright future changes C......more

Goodreads review by Theresa

This was a good read. It was well written and gives the reader an honest and emotional view of both sides of a tragedy. It's about a policeman who commits the ultimate act. During a traffic stop, he kills a young black man who he thought was reaching for a gun, only to discover that it was a cellpho......more