The Mourning Parade, Dawn Reno Langley
The Mourning Parade, Dawn Reno Langley
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The Mourning Parade
A Novel

Author: Dawn Reno Langley

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/18/2017


Synopsis

Single mom and veterinarian Natalie DeAngelo lost everything the day her two sons were killed in a school shooting. Following her psychiatrist’s advice, she decides to sell her once-happy home to escape the immense pain and grief of living there alone.Desperate to find relief from her unspeakable loss, Natalie impetuously commits to honoring her boys’ memory and volunteers to assist philanthropist Andrew Gordon at his elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand. All she wants once she gets there is relief.But she soon realizes she may be in over her head when she faces three major challenges: her debilitating PTSD is creating night terrors; Peter Hatcher, the sanctuary’s irascible in-house vet, has a longtime grudge against her and wants desperately for her to fail; and Sophie, a female elephant with a raging leg infection and PTSD caused by human abuse, is demanding that Natalie use every trick in her veterinarian’s black bag to heal her.Dr. Hatcher wants to euthanize Sophie, as he claims she’s a lost cause, and Natalie knows she must find a way to convince the others to let her keep trying. Can she and Sophie find a way to heal together and learn to love life again? Or will another tragedy shatter Natalie’s progress?

About Dawn Reno Langley

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

About Tavia Gilbert

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on June 25, 2017

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

Goodreads review by debbicat *made of stardust* on May 14, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Jodi on June 26, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Dee on July 30, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Sharon on August 02, 2017

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


Quotes

“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