Behind the Mic Podcast

Kim Hooper’s ripped-from-the-headlines novel is brought to life by a stellar team of narrators. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss this surprisingly hopeful audiobook that deals with the repercussions of a mass shooting in a Boise, Idaho, bar. Hillary Huber portrays a wide range of emotions as a mother whose son has committed a horrific violent act, and who searches for ways to deal with her grief, suffers blame from the community, and works to support her son’s victims. The cast gives all of the characters powerful voices that make them all feel real.

Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Dreamscape.

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Support for Behind the Mic comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, read by Leighton Pugh. The narrative describes the quest of the Arthurian knight, Parzival, for the Holy Grail. His journey is filled with incident, from tournaments and sieges to chivalrous deeds and displays of true love. The poem influenced several later works, most notably Richard Wagner’s opera of the same name and Umberto Eco’s Baudolino. The text used in this recording is Cyril Edwards’s modern prose translation. Find it at naxosaudiobooks.com