
The Mourning Parade
A Novel
Author: Dawn Reno Langley
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 07/18/2017
Categories: Fiction, Women, Literary Fiction

Author: Dawn Reno Langley
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 07/18/2017
Categories: Fiction, Women, Literary Fiction
Dawn Reno Langley has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, has published children’s books, novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and poetry, as well as theater reviews and blogs. A Fulbright scholar with an MFA in fiction and a PhD in interdisciplinary studies, Langley lives in Durham, North Carolina
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.
Thank you to the author, the publisher, and Netgalley, for the free copy in exchange for a review. Wow, I devoured this book. It was a quick read with much depth. I'm an animal lover, and I knew early in the book that Dawn Reno Langley has a heart for animals, too. One of my favorite quotes was from......more
Such a beautiful cover! While I really enjoyed this book, it was hard to read at times. As an animal lover I know there is great suffering out there and so many are abused and treated with anything but kindness. Much has come to light in the past few years about elephants being abused and mistreated......more
While I have read virtually all of Ms. Langley’s books, The Mourning Parade quickly became my favorite. The story elicits a full range of emotions – happiness, sadness, anger, and surprise – it isn’t often one experiences this many emotions so profoundly in a single book and, for this, Ms. Langley s......more
I was totally immersed in “The Mourning Parade,” caught up in Dawn Reno Langley’s tale of a woman dealing with a haunted past. The story focuses on Natalie and her struggle with an insane event that dominates her thoughts. While the author paints the scenes, emotions rumble through Natalie’s mind, e......more
I won this Free Book from Goodreads First-Reads. Thankyou Goodreads for choosing me to win this book. I've really enjoyed reading it. A story of loss and family and healing by sharing. An Elephant in a Sanctuary in Thailand suffering from a bad infection, abuse and loneliness A vet from America also s......more
“I absolutely love this beautiful book. An emotional, colorful, well-balanced journey from grief to hope, a road best traveled at the mercy of nature, which Langley deftly conjures within the green-jungle magic of Thailand. Sophie is an amazing character, an elephant of both challenge and courage. I couldn’t put it down.” Shannon Kirk, author of Method 15/33