How Now, Butterfly? How Now, Butterfly?

How Now, Butterfly‪?‬

A Memoir of Murder, Survival, and Transformation

    • 2.3 • 6 Ratings
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

A mother recounts her unthinkable experience after her thirteen-year-old son murders his little sister—and her struggle to emerge from devastation.
 
Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine—but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her thirteen-year-old son, Paris, murdered her beloved four-year-old daughter, Ella.
 
Charity goes through intense grief at the loss of her daughter, while at the same time trying to understand why her son would have done something as horrific as this, and how she could have missed the signs that Paris was a true psychopath.
 
While barely holding herself together throughout her intense grief, Charity is still a mother and feels a need to advocate for her son to receive appropriate treatment while incarcerated, while at the same time trying to ensure he stays in prison so he can never hurt someone again. Charity still loves her son and craves a connection with him despite all he has done. Because of her experiences, she rebuilds her life and starts a non-profit to help other families of victims, as well as offenders.
 
This book is a meditation on grief, loss, and forgiveness unlike any other. It’s also an inspirational story of a true survivor. How Now, Butterfly? is a haunting memoir that no reader will soon forget.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2020
January 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
306
Pages
PUBLISHER
WildBlue Press
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

CBibliophile ,

Poorly Written

This book is truly a stream of consciousness better left in therapy. While the diary expresses pain, frustration, anger as you would expect it has none of the enlightenment or insight. The diary entries are repetitive and without the framework of context & events it often doesn’t make much sense. It ends abruptly without having actually told a story.

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