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In Riding, Pardis Mahdavi meditates on the lessons learned over a lifetime of horseback riding and the falling, failing, and joy it brings. At once a history of Caspian horses, an exploration of Mahdavi's Iranian-American identity and family history, and a consideration of the capacity for self-reflection and self-compassion through human-animal relationships, Riding offers a roadmap for learning to live in harmony with the self and the environment around us. Mahdavi shows how her relationship with horses gives her insights into intergenerational strength and tools for healing intergenerational trauma. Riding from the mountains of Iran to the beaches of California, Mahdavi shares her love affair with horses, rediscovers a homeland she longs for, and ultimately finds her strength.

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Pardis Mahdavi is a writer, professor, avid horsewoman, and the author of seven books. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Ms., the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Based in Los Angeles, Sharmila Devar is a successful working actress with over twenty years of experience performing in TV, film, commercial, animation, and theater projects. She has a BA in economics from The University of Chicago where, thanks to a wide-ranging Common Core, she expanded her love of all things storytelling. She has performed at Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre and is known for her recurring television roles on Scandal and in the Star Wars animated world. As a narrator, she has voiced a variety of single and multi-narrator audiobooks-ranging from POC/women's history to pre-school and middle-grade children's series, to self-help to young adult mystery to literary fiction, with a specialty in South Asian diaspora stories and romances. Her narration has been described as ""vivid and full of emotion,"" and she has been praised for her characterizations by Library Journal and InD'tale Magazine. A voracious reader, she counts her curiosity about complicated humans and her passion to bring all their varied stories to life as some of her best qualities.

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